On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:21:55PM -0500, Rajko M wrote:
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.
Will see if he reacts here.
The last try with beta 8 asked 3 CD-s just for basic GUI system without KDE.
Unclear what you mean. Did you install it without KDE, or did the KDE install not work? Normally CD1-3 are needed if you want a standard installation in English or German and with KDE or Gnome.
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.
That last part is obvious. At this moment the download to advice to users is 10.0 and there you need CD1-5. 10.1 is not out yet. People who download alpha, beta or RC can only blame thenselves. I can not feel pity for people who download and install alpha, beta or RC on working machines. The 1CD download however is more difficult to master, because there would be too many version. You would add that what is already out there a 1CD KDE and 1CD Gnome, adding 6 CD's(32 and 64 bit and PPC). And that is just one issue. Another is that you need to decide what goes on and what does not goes on these CD's. Most likely you could only have 1 language. Not advisable, as SUSE will need German for their German userbase. At some point you need to make a choice. SUSE always has been a large distribution with much software available. If bandwith is an issue (and I understand that it is for many users) and you are unable to get a copy from a friend who downloads it in the office or from a magazine or such and are unwilling or unable to buy the boxed set, you should look at your priorities and perhaps use something that needs less download. Downloading the 1, 3, 5 or even 6 CD's or the DVD is also not the end of it. When you do a standard KDE 10.0 installation, a YOU will download 200MB. So you have the daily or weekly downloads as well. There are ways to do a 1CD installation or a installation with the boot.iso. How to do this is explained could be done better and could be explained on the 1-CD page. That said, the boot.iso is 60MB (or about that). Then you just have the boot.iso and still need to download whatever you need. A customized XML file would help bring down the minimum download. However if you compare DSL is 50MB and a complete Linux distro. So if download is a real issue, perhaps DSL is more for you. As much as I like SUSE, I understand it is not the tool for everybody in each situation. A solution was SLICK and the 1-CD installation. This was not a SUSE product and was therefore hosted on another server with the known result. You could easily pick it up and make your own 1-CD SUSE 10.1, host it somewhere and get what you want for those users who want only to have a 1CD installation. You can then do a 2CD version, as you do not need to be complient to everything. Just a 32 and a 64 bit version with KDE or Gnome. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau