On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:33 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 18 January 2007 02:39, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
I heard from several sides that the base system of openSUSE 10.2 is a bit large - and agree and would like to discuss with you what we can do. ...
I would set target to a basic system that can run and add more packages in a first instance from CD.
Good example, what should be the goal of minmal system, can be a DSL distribution.
Similar based on SUSE can be base for further installation if one wants more. As such base would be only about 50-100 MB pieces can be replaced very fast with bigger brother that has compiled in more functionality. This should be the same as Lars Rupp's idea of repackaging.
This would add some minimalistic tailored packages to the distribution, that can give us a usefull working and expandable (graphic) environment. Than if user needs more he can add software with full functionality that will pull in regular dependencies. That will grow system very fast, but that can be addressed later.
Advantage of this is that users will have small system and chance to bloat their system in direction they really have interest in, and not to be forced to use predefined set that is targeted to all possible usage profiles and demands almost 500 MB for text mode alone.
This combined with ability to store selection of software in user defined pattern (that feature is still not back in YaST) and publish it in some common place where others can access them. That will be some kind of voting machine, where the number of downloads will tell what is really in use and give developers idea what has to be improved.
To prevent idea that such mini installation is real SUSE it can be used MiniSUSE name instead. Hmm, have I seen that name somewhere?
Hey guys, isn't this whole discussion thread just a rehashing of the 1 cd intall with slick? I have said many times that I wished I could get to a gui desktop with the first CD and add what I wanted after that. It would be particularly nice on all my machines that still run a PIII with 10 gig or smaller drive, and yes, I still have a stack of pc's with 4 gig drives and pII's too. I have already played with the different versions of this idea i.e. super, slick and 1 cd and they all do things I like. I have had hopes that OpenSUSE would release a "1 cd install" version that was close enough to SLED desktop in appearance to use it on my PII's\ PIII's and build an application server to host extra's. In a school network I have to image and repair machines during "production" hours and I can't see any reason to load the whole distro when I could just deliver application shortcuts to a stripped down version twice as fast, much like I do now with W2k. I know this will go over like a "Lead Balloon" but a Novell Gnome based 1 cd install would be a huge thing for me and I'm sure the state of Indiana as well. Could this system include something like "sysprep" ? since Novell wants system registration for patch subscriptions and machine names for SMB compatibilty and I am sure lot's of people are looking for an easy imaging solution, this would be real nice! jasujt\fxrsliberty\JT --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org