On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:57:50 +0100
"Carlos E. R."
More than the installed OS would need?
Yes, a Live typically uses more RAM than the normal system for the same apps, as it has to create a ramdisk for the system, and typically without access to swap.
See, currently the install DVD needs about 1 GiB of ram to work (with 750MiB it walks, not runs), whereas the installed system in the same machine can run with about half.
That "Live" has a very minimal X system, no apps (yesterday I learned it does have an Xterm (thanks Richard!). If you put a full desktop with its apps it will require more ram. And, now that I think about it, it would have many more things that could fail.
Fair enough.
And if it is to grow, it has to tempt people across from other distros and OSes, right?
Well...
Well, that's a point.
But I would not touch the DVD install system, I would instead create Live CDs for testing and possibly installing KDE/Gnome/XFCE. I think they would be nice for shows and giveaways, too.
Agreed. Gecko provides just that, by the way.
IMHO, changing the DVD that lot might "piss" a number of the current openSUSE faithful.
That's a good point.
I'm not familiar with Gecko.
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