Hello, On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
* a browser (firefox) and maybe an email client (thunderbird?)
Nope. Seamonkey! Seamonkey package is 44.3 MiB (without translations, those are a whopping 50.5 MiB containing locales for ca;cs;de;en_GB;es_AR;es_ES;fi;fr;hu;it;ja;nb_NO;nl;pl;pt_PT;ru;sv_SE;zh_CN with more than half of that being hypenation stuff that is probably not needed on such a disk)), Firefox 37.7 MiB + 32.7 MiB translations, Thunderbird 44.3 MiB + 43.3 MiB translations. Do the math ;P Using Seamonkey instead of FF + TB would help the live CD a lot I guess.
* the chosen desktop should be "complete" and "functional" (i know, there are different meanings for different people). E.g. keep the multimedia stuff and the music player included, so that hardware compatibility can be tested (you don't need MP3 for testing the soundcard, ogg is just fine for that). * rescue tools: all filesystem stuff, gparted, gpart, whatever. Maybe even some forensic stuff, Greg Freemeyer might know what is useful also for a "normal" user who has "just" killed his partition table and wants to recover it. * basic documentation, maybe the man-pages packages. Brian explained the reasoning for that quite good: "I happen to value documentation on live media specifically because half the time I'm even USING a live media is because I'm either installing or repairing or otherwise do not have normal use of the machine, which may mean no access to internet (at least via that machine)."
Same here. -dnh --
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