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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:14:06 +0100 (CET)
"Carlos E. R."
Well... yes, it would be possible, you are right.
In fact, the openSUSE installation DVD is a Live Linux, only that you can not freely interact with the desktop (although it has 3 or 4 text consoles, I miss having an xterm). It is a graphical desktop (I forgot which), and it offers a guided install with many complex options for choosing what to install and how. It is very powerful and versatile, a complex product. I guess it might run on top of a "standard" live, but it simply was not designed that way. It might be changed, but is it worth that effort? I doubt it. It would need lots of more ram.
More than the installed OS would need?
It is part of what we SuSE/SUSE/openSUSE users are accustomed to ;-)
Well, fair enough -- and yes, it does seem to resemble my faint recollections of the tools I used to install SuSE Linux Professional 15-20 years ago. I suppose it would. But if a distro is to thrive, it must grow, right? And if it is to grow, it has to tempt people across from other distros and OSes, right? Well...
The openSUSE Lives that could be installed used a different method. Basically they copied themselves over to the hard disk, no options offered. The last ones were for 13.2, but Tumbleweed also has them, since relatively recently I think.
... that is pretty much what the 2 other leading distros from for-profit companies do. I suggest it's what people are used to these days. Shouldn't openSUSE at least offer the option? I have been trying out SLE, Leap and various flavours of Gecko in VMs recently. Gecko is very much more like the sort of installation experience I have come to expect, to be honest. It is really pretty good. I am told that Gecko includes stuff that openSUSE can't. For comparison, Mint used to do that with respect to Ubuntu. Until 2011 or so, Mint was just Ubuntu (complete with GNOME 2) but additionally including nVidia and AMD drivers, Flash player, Java, MP3 codecs and so on. Ubuntu was not legally able to distribute these in some countries -- mainly the USA, I *think* -- so it made them optional. Mint is Irish and just did it, as it's legal in the EU (again, AIUI.) When the Mint team discovered that this meant their distro could not be legally downloaded or distributed in some countries, they produced a separate "clean" version with the parts that couldn't be legally distributed removed. This did mean that it was even more like vanilla Ubuntu -- but with a green theme instead of brown (again: Irish :-) ) and with the GNOME 2 desktop rearranged with a single panel at the bottom, to be more Windows-like and more space-efficient on a 4:3 monitor. It would not be so hard for Gecko to do that, too. If that is all it would take to get Gecko Linux back under the "official" auspices of the openSUSE project, it might be worth pursuing. (Note: I do not know if that _is_ all. I am just speculating here. Despite my email address, I know nothing more about this than any other passer-by, and I am speaking for myself and not anyone else, including my employer.) No reason that the big "one size fits all" multi-desktop DVD images shouldn't be offered _as well_. - -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEeNZxWlZYyNg7I0pvkm4MJhv0VBYFAlqP9NYACgkQkm4MJhv0 VBZ5wBAArNWpIgTRdUx+xOHydWN7qWGQRASUPvlBMPAjUfthuXpefgD6ei9kYuC/ D2M+RMrO9Z9j2JrvwVtr7FxQxw4qMu8k4qp68xRA6wmeZDBH3w272p+BEV/zO61Z Oox6XCswbf1FochhzPchhJgEP10WCmkMCj8Qeoh+Sc2bk5QZEwU1V+qjfJWHc0M3 JctBl9IgFI26zIy6rwng6SVWWReWjqjIFjoGLXh7nJSs7TROFV4uRqA0kgADU+H2 A9eEsA5995fte7tDGu6s+vyJVqnMRsLc/NOldL8CHHml/OZyz3U5L6XQvIBXmMV1 rnj9h21xsV049kR+bMAK0DMdDSzNkiLSS+YlvnObsWTxD0D/3gYfTTbRnCHLjSiq vEbk6FIscH2B6FEOl3x6QXGYEsI1tVxDNi0SldCEc1cUnaDhADTktku9Sr2q+os9 EHymFGKzn/90fwOjOgFJ9A+9YAlQNPzHdqlwLO2r7GWk/6s2E234pb7ezrzvVnoX I3I1OWVKOUsNNn5nNbEbMwZAkaN9gx7klahJRYFLW/HHa8y57rzruJBepcAcw7ku /Bar8aO33G+qyv3a2Rh8qstxhai0XQZkxbiXMKVAhFZ6uJtsAPCvVMTxn35zeaR9 qkWsiWjNRZGrBE+fE+osMqkSpIlxmRWUZRjEGH3Sljk9dWsG5nQ= =Uq/m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- N�����r��y隊Z)z{.���r�+�맲��r��z�^�ˬz��N�(�֜��^� ޭ隊Z)z{.���r�+��0�����Ǩ�