On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 1:15 pm, in message <43238524.7090902@oracle.com>, john.bartee@oracle.com wrote: Andreas, Carl, et al,
I just installed the KDE 1- CD- INSTALL now and I am very impressed. This is a really great product.
I am hoping to convert my Oracle folks to SUSE but it is more
Thank the guys and girls at SUSE, since they have done the amazing work. Creating a 1 CD installer on their work is trivial compared to the distro and I don't really have anything to do with that (unfortunately ..... I would love to move to Nuernberg though .. hint hint) politics
than anything. I think the United Linux venture spoiled the soup a little, but I will do my best to spread the word. I have emailed Dave
Hare VP, to take a look at this and move us toward OpenSuse for our desktops as well as servers. The ship is big and the rudder moves it
very slowly.... but I am hopeful.
If there is anything we can do to help, let me know.
I think a "KNOPPIX- like 1_CD" that could be popped into the drives of hardcode- Windows- devotees, would go a long way in spreading the movement. One with end- user applications instead of tech- weenie utilities so they can see that their key apps are there and the internet, mail, and aim/chat will not be sacrificed.
I totally agree and Knoppix has a good name and is developed by a group of excellent engineers. To use their work to base this LIVECD on would be IMHO a great plus as we don't have to reinvent the wheel, we would use the clever scripting done by Dr Knopper and his team and would not need to maintain too much.
From memory is is not too hard to get the knoppix /etc/ going with any distro (as a quick hack it took me possible 16 work hours in the past. That way we can rely on the good work of others and maybe convince Dr. Knopper to use SUSE ;) .... I talked to him in the past about doing a Knoppix for other distro's apart from Debian and he is certainly open minded, but personally does not see the need to maintain more than one. Maybe we could approach him and suggest to collaborate and have some sort of collaboration started between the openSUSE project and Knoppix?
I would be keen, but we certainly would ideally need someone that would maintain it ongoing. I could do a first hack, but someone would have to take this over from me as I would be unable to continue maintaining it really. Too many other things on and I do have a consulting job at Novell also, which keeps me entertained and busy .... However we do have a LIVEDVD already. The only issue with that is possibly the size, but we could also use the official liveDVD as a basis and create a 1CD version. As usual I think that the lowest common denominator is the option normal users would need (CD as opposed to DVD). Regards, Andreas Girardet openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER