Providing the Moblin user experience on top of a standard openSUSE
base is something we are interested in doing, but it's not something
that will feasibly happen very soon. We are locking down to freeze on
an openSUSE/SLE-based Moblin 2.0.
We have a few repositories, that build on openSUSE 11.1 or SLE 11:
* Moblin:Base - provides modified/updated kernel, xorg, HAL, etc. -
much of what is here can be ignored for a Moblin user experience on a
stock openSUSE (e.g. like we have GNOME and KDE desktops, we could
have a Moblin one).
However, these packages are critical for providing the entire Moblin
OS, and many patches would also need to be merged into
openSUSE:Factory (e.g. we require KMS + DRI2). Much of this
requirement is satisfied by xorg 1.6.3.
* Moblin:UI - provides updated GNOME packages and the core Moblin
components like mutter, mutter-moblin, bickley, etc. Most of what is
here can be run on top of a standard openSUSE 11.1
We produce the SLE-based images directly from Moblin:Factory, which is
an aggregate project taking in packages from the two devel projects
(Moblin:UI and Moblin:Base) and a few packages from other devel
projects (e.g. mozilla for FF 3.5). We do all the core work in the
public OBS, and there is an openSUSE 11.1 image project (KIWI) for
producing a full image in OBS as well.
This image is a little bit stale, but the goal is to derive the SLE
image from the openSUSE kiwi file, so that nothing gets horribly out
of sink or stale. Andrew can speak more to this.
For the 11.2 cycle, I think the most reasonable approach is to offer a
Moblin 2.0 image download next to the regular openSUSE. I do not think
it's really feasible to integrate the full Moblin stack into 11.2
proper, but it is something we would like to do for +1.
I'm very interested in Andrew's feedback here, and anyone else's
interested in Moblin.
HTH,
Aaron
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Michael Loeffler
Moin all,
I'd like to ask you guys if, what and how we should provide Moblin to openSUSE users?
We see Moblin gets high attention and with Goblin Andrew already based a version of Moblin on openSUSE and it is appreciated by the users.
I heard the request to add Moblin to our major distribution (maybe considered for openSUSE 11.3) and offer it with our "desktop selection" page. So what would such an Moblin desktop add in space to the DVD? (as the DVD is already pretty crowded) Others are asking for a seperate Moblin image for each stable openSUSE release.
So please let us know your opinion if and how to integrate Moblin with openSUSE?
Best Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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