houghi wrote:
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:28AM -0500, Rajko M wrote:
The web site and the media should be complimentary, so any installation media problem can make web site useless. Look at SLICK or 1_CD install. Nice ideas that are silently abandoned.
That is normal in the world of any development, be it open source or something else. If a project does not get enough momentum. it dies. SourceForge is full of them.
Agree.
The reason is that most projects are actually one person projects in reality. As soon as the key person steps out, the project stops.
Now we can debate about how awefull this is, but what is more important is that we must discuss what to do about it AND THEN ACT UPON IT.
Agree. I liked idea, about slick SUSE that can be used as base for further development of distribution (operating system) from general purpose monster sized to application specific where OS itself is just a tool to run application specific programs. Like JackLab project for audio oriented SUSE.
The 1-CD page can be edited to not include the SLICK links, or can be replaced by working ones.
So are there people still working on SLICK or SUPER and what is going on with that? Especially the links to opensuse.linux.co.nz and for 1-CD a working control.xml are important. Is SLICK and SUPER still alive, or has it gone down?
Andreas can give you answer. I found page when SLICK was already abandoned in favor of SUPER. You can see his user page http://en.opensuse.org/User:agirardet.
If it has gone down, a complete re-write of http://en.opensuse.org/1_CD_install is needed. Only a working control.xml would be needed for people to get started, all other links to opensuse.linux.co.nz should then be deleted.
Again, Andreas is probably the best source.
If you have a working control.xml, you can mail it to me. I will host it (for the time being)
I never got one copy of 1_CD_install. Links died before I got chance to download anything :-) So, I'm still waiting for openSUSE to produce distribution that needs one CD for basic install, and stable FTP source for the rest. The last try with beta 8 asked 3 CD-s just for basic GUI system without KDE. To attract as many as possible potential users initial download has to be small, but complete GUI system, and absolutely not alpha, beta or RC. Right now I'm trying the graphic tools included in distribution, as that might be interesting for a large number of users. The GIMP is mighty, but still not really comfortable (user friendly) tool to produce nice graphic. Some examples can help. -- Regards, Rajko.