[opensuse-factory] On Live media [Was: openSUSE 101 - SUSE != openSUSE]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2018-02-21 at 15:16 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:57:25 -0500 Anton Aylward wrote:

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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.

OK, I'll bite. :-)

If it is so (relatively) easy...

Is there a particular reason why the openSUSE boot/install medium is *not* a Live medium?

The main one, IMHO, is that the openSUSE install DVD is more reliable and versatile than a live used for installation. It also requires more RAM during installation. As I remember, when we had such lives, it basically installed an image of itself on the computer over which the user had very few choices available at install time. However, a Live "demo" is very useful. It can be given as present to people to just test openSUSE without installing anything on the computer. Similarly, we can test a computer with it before purchasing the computer. It can be used on emergencies, for repairing the computer. It can be used on non emergencies on a computer that has Windows without altering it, so that we do have Linux when the computer doesn't. The last lives made, 13.1, 13.2, when placed on an USB stick, on the first boot created a writeable partition on the remaining of the stick, so that we could write files, even install new rpms. I still keep around the 13.1 Live XFCE aka rescue system because there is no Leap equivalent (which was not installable) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlqOthUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VP+gCeJWwGet9efc1vdH7VqKOC+tG+ GAsAn2xktK3RdHFAd6OPiG6Fggwqm98c =zKYn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org