On 21/02/18 08:14 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
The second is the absence of a LiveCD. Or LiveUSB. I've BTDT and and know the costings for producing a custom CD/DVD or even a custom USB. Heck, the "gifts" we get, the caps, shirts, booklets, pens all add up costing more than that. A few years we did get all the presentations on a USB stick; I've re-purposed those, but they weren't big enough for a Live version. Prices have fallen significantly since then. Most years we get a DVD based "starter kit" with the (presumably cut-down) installation demo of current release of SUSE and another disk with all the presentation materials. I have a full set of those going back, what, more than five years. But no Live version. Something here doesn't make sense. Not least of all given the amount to time in the presentation about using the Build System to build your own, highly customized distribution. That is indeed very strange.
Live media are a very handy tool and I use them a lot. They are also a great way to test that an OS is going to work on your machine -- if the live medium works, you can be fairly sure that the installed OS will work. If the live medium won't, then probably the installed OS won't, either.
And Gecko Linux shows that openSUSE can do it, no problem.
I'll go further than that. There are MANY private individuals who have used the Build System to make custom openSUSE derived LiveDVD images or installation images, that are now publicly available. It's also a case of "You Can Too" if you are willing to put the time into learning the Build System, collecting the packages you want together and so on. If you want to make a very reduced system, say for JUST photo-editing, then it might even fir on a CD or 1G USB depending on how aggressive you are about editing the GUI/DisplayManager side of things. Or again if you just want enough to make an emulation that serves as a Cromebook loader. -- One supplier of software for bank dealing rooms takes the view that anyone who pirates its code is welcome, as using it without skilled technical support would be a fast way for a bank to lose millions. -- Ross Anderson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org