On vendredi, 21 avril 2017 16.01:46 h CEST Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote:
Hello, first of all I must say this request is not related to "default DE" issue.
From many years ago up to current release, openSUSE provides a 4.4GB ISO image for DVD and offline installation, and one Net Install ISO image less than 100MB.
This approach has many big problems:
4.4GB image: ===========
* It is very huge and hard to get for most people specially who are in un-developed and in-development countries who have the low-bandwidth and limited-traffic internet service.
* It is wasting the network traffic and bandwidth for both users and openSUSE servers, because not all the software in the ISO image used by users. Most users usually installs only one DE.
Net Install image: =================
* It needs to internet and huge data to get for *every* install. Wrong I mostly need less than 1Gb for my typical install ;-) See mine is shorter than, If users want to install openSUSE on 2-3 different systems or on different partitions of Hard Disk, they need to internet and huge data to get for every installation. You know that you can copy an install media, have a proxy, an own mirror. Solution are endless for those who want. These problems are also mentioned by other people:
* https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/459865-Surprised-by-size-o f-distro-iso-download
Shall I really add the fact that when I install a Debian things, I have almost one day to spend to have all the software I can have in one clic. Oh sorry I don't even know which iso I have to download to have a desktop over a virtualization server. Perhaps one day you will understand that no openSUSE is not a copycat of other stuff, why would we contribute to those kind of things.
* In one review of openSUSE that I read last year in a famous website, the author pointed to this problem. No link no proof.
To solve mentioned problems and to attract more users to openSUSE, this project should provide separate ISO image for each DE, exactly like Fedora: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Thanks What is able to do fedora project is not what we can, or want to.
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