Moin, On Wednesday 15 April 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
You may have noticed or may be not, but I've experimented a bit with the factory live cds.
While the 11.1 livecds used some combination of squashfs+aufs, the factory live cds use some new, experimental file system with the working title "doenerfs", which embeds an ext3 image.
As this uses lzma compression, the size went from ~680MB to ~570MB for a GNOME live cd@ i586. Now I had several requests in the past to add additional software that I had to refuse because there just wasn't enough room on the CD (and I need to extra MB as buffer because with compression the size required can jump quite considerable from build to build).
So I ask: what do you think I should add.
Open requests are basically everything installed by the DVD and is not from the CD. This includes e.g.:
- gimp - java runtime - beagle - the complete printing locally stack (e.g. drivers, filters) - 4 more text editors - 3 more shells
And there is the request to include more languages on the livecd. This is actually my preferred solution - as I see the live cd use case (smaller download) more visible in countries that speak languages other languages than german and english. If you look at http://en.opensuse.org/Statistics, this would mean: russian, italian, spanish, spanish, polish, french (as it fits).
Of course a third option is: leaving the live cd at 570MB for smaller download (and/or more free space on a USB stick). I wouldn't add more software if thers is not really huge demand, especially not the third application of the same kind in just in another flavor. I'd go for something which enhances the Live CD in general which is in my opinion:
Prio1: more language support Prio2: the complete printing locally stack Best Michael
Greetings, Stephan
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