Feature changed by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #312993, revision 4 Title: Install kernel-desktop from Live CD (GNOME and KDE). openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello, actually OpenSUSE 11.4, and 12.1 install kernel-desktop from the standard DVD installer, at least if user choose to install a graphical desktop environment such KDE or GNOME. But I have found that Live CDs (GNOME and KDE) install kernel-default, this haven't got much sense for me. I think Live GNOME and Live KDE mediums should also install kernel- desktop by default instead of kernel-default. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Most of the people who install a system from a Live GNOME or Live KDE CD do it because they are installing in a Desktop computer, therefore kernel-desktop is better optimized by this kind of computers. How many servers will use the Live GNOME or the Live KDE mediums to install? Discussion: #1: Philipp Niehues (cotrinox) (2011-11-18 22:49:00) Is there a noticeable difference? I installed openSUSE 12.1 by DVD and still got default! Not sure whether desktop is chosen by default at all. But if it is better, then why not? + #2: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) (2011-11-19 12:23:47) + I think default supports a wider range of hardware. My own laptop + cannot use the desktop kernel because certain types of Intel Centrino + chips are excluded. I would have thought that including both kernels + would massively increase the size of the CD image and hence if only one + can fit, it has to be the one with the broadest hardware support, at + the expense of minor performance gains for some users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312993