2009/8/24 Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I recently started doing a lot of mark-all-as-read in the opensuse-project mailing list due to the sheer volume. So this may be asked by someone and answered, already. If so, Please excuse me and point me to the right URL of the archive. I will just read from there. Google and GMail search didnt help in locating this myself.

A lot has been discussed about the default desktop in the installation media. But why not have DVD images of the entire applications that relate to a single desktop. Kernel, X, OpenOffice, Firefox etc. will remain common.  For a pure GNOME/KDE user, LiveCD will not be sufficient with all the packages and [s]he may need other Desktop applications as well. (No more fights between pidgin/empathy/xchat ? monsoon/transmission ? give both).

In this way, in the http://software.opensuse.org page, you just have to add a row: GNOME/KDE/BOTH . choosing BOTH will download an image that when installed will pre-select KDE (as per the previous decision).

One thing I could see is, it will increase the workload for maintaining, LIVE-CD, Full-DVD, Desktop-DVD. If the download statistics of live-cd are comparably low, we can just ignore it and maintain only DVD images of Live-Desktop-editions. If a person really wants to try Linux and [s]he is ready to download a live-cd, I dont think [s]he will hesitate to download a live-dvd image as well.  Any other drawbacks in this ?

-- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Download size? The LiveCDs now contains much more packages than before (11.1) due to coolo's optimizations and new files system and I don't see why a LiveDVD would be better. Regards, Luiz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

2009/8/24 Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I recently started doing a lot of mark-all-as-read in the opensuse-project mailing list due to the sheer volume. So this may be asked by someone and answered, already. If so, Please excuse me and point me to the right URL of the archive. I will just read from there. Google and GMail search didnt help in locating this myself.

A lot has been discussed about the default desktop in the installation media. But why not have DVD images of the entire applications that relate to a single desktop. Kernel, X, OpenOffice, Firefox etc. will remain common.  For a pure GNOME/KDE user, LiveCD will not be sufficient with all the packages and [s]he may need other Desktop applications as well. (No more fights between pidgin/empathy/xchat ? monsoon/transmission ? give both).

In this way, in the http://software.opensuse.org page, you just have to add a row: GNOME/KDE/BOTH . choosing BOTH will download an image that when installed will pre-select KDE (as per the previous decision).

One thing I could see is, it will increase the workload for maintaining, LIVE-CD, Full-DVD, Desktop-DVD. If the download statistics of live-cd are comparably low, we can just ignore it and maintain only DVD images of Live-Desktop-editions. If a person really wants to try Linux and [s]he is ready to download a live-cd, I dont think [s]he will hesitate to download a live-dvd image as well.  Any other drawbacks in this ?

-- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Download size? The LiveCDs now contains much more packages than before (11.1) due to coolo's optimizations and new files system and I don't see why a LiveDVD would be better. Regards, Luiz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org