Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, houghi wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:33:52AM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
I guess you can't educate by telling, and not even by offering as we see. By publishing (not releasing the ISOs any other way) would result in a bad image for SUSE - "not user friendly".
So the best way would be not to release ISOs at all (exception: boot.iso), but to publish a script which can build each ISO by fetching the files from the inst-source tree.
I like the idea. I really do. It just somehow does not seem workable. Th e reason is that many people (also on this list) do not have a high speed connection at the place the instalation will be.
Also you would have a CD or DVD burner in the machine that does the instalation.
No. You could download a more or less tailored subset of inst-source and install from harddisk or over NFS/HTTP/FTP. Maybe a help of a script would be good for this which allows some selections.
What I DO see is a script (mine adapted or a new one) that is on http://opensuse.org/index.php/1_CD_install and does the needed downloads.
Yes.
I am afraid most people will still want to be able to have everything, no matter if they use it or not. People are like that. They want to ahve, meaning feel or see them, so they know it is theirs.
I guess the people who could feel rejected or neglected if there were no direct ISO downloads simply want to fetch "something solid" directly, so it is a matter of feeling.
Again, I like the idea. Just a bit afraid that ythe average person would think it to be strange/difficult.
A single-ISO-distribution could help. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)