On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:43:57 +0400 "Alexander Muravya" <alexmuravyasuse@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, list! We already have opensuse for Asus eeePC but what about improving it: 1) We need to create "easy mode" (as it was realized in default Xandros) 2) We need to include packages for wi-fi and web-camera (and other hardware) in default selection (to enable "out of the box" support of all eeePC hardware) 3) Make ISO image for USB Sticks (because eeePC has no DVD-ROM)
Second statement is very important because user need to download few packages to make his wi-fi working from Internet, but with the same time he has no wireless internet access.
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Alexander, 1) I'm not so sure having an "easy mode" replicated in openSUSE is worth it. I would much rather see openSUSE produce an image using XFCE or LXDE. These are desktop environments designed to be light on resources, and as a result be speedy. 2) As has been mentioned some of the hardware is/will be supported natively by the kernel. However not all the drivers are completely open, and as such make things slightly harder for "out of the box" support. 3) I agree that having a USB image would be very handy, and there is nothing stopping you trying this with KIWI. I have it on my todo list, but at present my list is rather large and I'm trying to get through all items. I have installed GNOME/KDE4.1/XFCE/KDE3.5.9 on my eeePC701 (all via PXE boot), and to be honest I can't really decide on which DE is best which doesn't help with creating an image. At the minute, I'm going to discount KDE4 until 4.2 when the panel gains the hide feature. So I'm now down to three which is no easier. I would probably go with GNOME, but that is only because that is the DE that I am most familiar with. I am going to give KDE3 a good go though as I think deep down that it may well be better suited to the device. An alternative is to thin the package selection down sufficiently that it takes up the least amount of space. This in effect would be a matter of deciding what applications are necessary (web browser/mail client/IM/etc) and then try an do a custom install with that package set and see if it works. This can be done in a VM and not necessarily on an actual device. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: GNOME & Marketing Teams. http://opensuse.org/GNOME | http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org awafaa@opensuse.org http://www.wafaa.eu | http://www.forcev.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org