That's very cool. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM, James Mason wrote:

I sent this out to the rest of the studio dev team.  I'll update everyone of what we get done.  As of now, it looks like we'll be able to have 11.4 support on release day; we're just having 1 issue with Kiwi we need to wrap up in the next day or so to make it happen.

- James Mason 'bear454'

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Mason Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM Subject: Ask not what your distro can do for you... To: studio-devel@suse.de Cc: bear454@opensuse.org

Last week was the openSUSE Hackfest[1], and among the discussions was some brainstorming on how Studio could cooperate to promote the 11.4 release.

Release day is a big deal for openSUSE: it's one of the few events that the media in general will take notice of.  We should help openSUSE make the best of that by doing what we can for release day ( Thursday, March 10 ), and help ourselves by taking advantage of the extra interest generated that day :)

First and foremost, is to support creating 11.4 appliances, and upgrading of existing appliances to 11.4.

Additionally, we have some great opportunities to build a base of 11.4 appliances to work from. openSUSE offers 'Live' desktop CDs for both GNOME & KDE, and the community provides additional ones for LXDE & XFCE. These are build in OBS using kiwi recipes.  We could provide additional formats for these live desktops as 'official' openSUSE builds, simply by importing the kiwi config and sharing the built appliances.  That would give openSUSE the ability to share not just Live CDs, but Live versions of all the formats, which many users (and especially reviewers) prefer, as they will be virtualizing instead of doing full installs for the short term.

Another opportunity, the one I am most excited about, would be to finish the Turnkey Linux appliance set we started during our last Appliance HackWeek.  Andy Fitzsimon has built a substantial repository of consistent, beautiful icons for these appliances[2].  All we need to do is upgrade the existing set of appliances, and provide some method of accessing the set (a tag, or making them all featured, etc.)  This is an elegant way to show not only the flexibility of openSUSE, but to highlight how Studio enhances that.

I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts & additional suggestions.

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest [2] http://paste.opensuse.org/37877314

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