Feature changed by: Stanley Miller (stan_qaz) Feature #307065, revision 2 Title: Terminate DVD image creation and only provide LiveCDs and Net Installs openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephen Kellat (skellat) Description: The discussion in openFATE #306967 relates to making KDE the default desktop environment for openSUSE. The question of choice arises there. A work-around to this would be to cease creating DVD images for installation and instead focus on LiveCDs and Net Install discs. Parity across desktop environments would be possible in having separate GNOME and KDE LiveCDs while also promoting Xfce into its own LiveCD instead of its obscurity on the DVD. As for Net Install discs, those are intended for experienced users so the rationale being exhibited in #306967 for catering to the needs of new users would not necessarily apply. Net Install discs could keep an expanded desktop environment choice list. Test Case: User desires GNOME experience in openSUSE and downloads the GNOME LiveCD. The kicker at http://software.opensuse.org would make the choice available to the user. Other users desire a KDE experience, an Xfce experience, or an LXDE experience would also be potentially directed by the kicker. ISO naming conventions would have to be adjusted to take into account the variety of LiveCDs possible. Use Case: Building LiveCDs decreases the amount of bandwidth to be consumed by potential users who would otherwise secure the DVD ISO. SUSEStudio could be tied in so that project leaders who were so minded could offer refreshed respins on their own outside the normal distribution cycle. + Discussion: + #1: Stanley Miller (stan_qaz) (2009-08-01 00:50:13) + Not having a DVD available is going to penalize folks wanting to + install on a computer that doesn't have fast net access or has caps on + the downloaded byte count. With the DVD you can go somewhere that does + have a good connection and grab the DVD image and use that to install + when you get home. + Not having the DVD may increase the amount of data the servers have to + provide, I download one DVD and install at least seven computers from + it. If I had to do an install from CD I'd have to download the stuff I + need that wasn't on the CD multiple times. If we had the "popularity + contest" app it might be possible to see just how the download amounts + would change. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307065