Am Montag, 14. November 2011, 17:28:26 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Mandag den 14. november 2011 10:58:42 skrev Stephan Kulow:
Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2011, 21:38:59 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Maybe it's getting time (for 12.2) to do like e.g. Mandriva and make live"dvds" of about 1,5 gigs or so. So it's still a managable download size, but the experience out of the box could be much nicer, i.e. including translations, synaptiks and other important stuff.
I'm guessing a large proportion of the live isos go onto usb sticks these days anyway which aren't limited to 700 megs. And who doesn't have a dvd burner?
But how many have free 2G sticks? Why not 1GiB?
And no, I have absolutely no interest in maintaining even more media sets. Left alone that noone beside me cares for fixing build of them, openqa is most likely also the only one testing them.
If people want installer languages, we need to remove software from the live cd. If people want 1G media, we need to drop live cds.
My idea was to drop the cd size isos. If 1 gb is sufficient to provide a full- featured, smooth experience that'd fine with me. But I think up to 2 GB is "fair" in terms of usb stick population and a managable download size - even for people with 1-2 mbit connections.
The point was to solve the problem of isos constantly outgrowing the cds, and give people a nice out of the box experience without having to download 3-400 megs of packages or more right after install anyway.
Of course it would be best if there was some way to only install the required languages and not all of them.
I'm fine with going from cd to 950MB USB media and it should be enough IMO to have most of it. People complained about live installer leaving too many language packages behind, so I wouldn't want every possible language package on there anyway - just some reliable way to trigger installation afterwards. The question is: how can we reach a supportable decision to leave cds behind? connect poll? Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org