On 21 February 2018 at 15:16, Liam Proven
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:57:25 -0500 Anton Aylward
wrote: I'll go further than that. There are MANY private individuals who have used the Build System to make custom openSUSE derived LiveDVD images or installation images, that are now publicly available. It's also a case of "You Can Too" if you are willing to put the time into learning the Build System, collecting the packages you want together and so on. If you want to make a very reduced system, say for JUST photo-editing, then it might even fir on a CD or 1G USB depending on how aggressive you are about editing the GUI/DisplayManager side of things. Or again if you just want enough to make an emulation that serves as a Cromebook loader.
OK, I'll bite. :-)
If it is so (relatively) easy...
Is there a particular reason why the openSUSE boot/install medium is *not* a Live medium?
I can think of some positive answers that seem obvious to me * Server installation offered from the media, not requiring a different media like other distros eg https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/615636/file/video.ogv * Text only installation (see video - yes, I know you hate videos, that's why I linked it. This one is only 3minutes long) * SSH/VNC based installation * Offering at least 2 different DE's as part of the installation (isn't that the whole point of this thread) * Supporting installation from a system with 1GB of RAM (I've never seen a live media run on less than 2GB) Then there is the negative ones * building Live Media is more complex, with more to go wrong, and they break more * there has been less interest shown in Live Media by the openSUSE community, with less fixes forthcoming when we've had them, meaning it's hard to emphasise them as a primary part of the distributions in that case. There's probably more reasons in both categories. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org