OK. Undersandable. It would be nice if they would use it as a basis for openSUSE and SUSE so people can (if they want) just use 1 CD.
It is easy enough to just create and download these iso's. After all they are just plain SUSE 10.0 beta3
The standard- minimal is a shell only install based on the SUSE install option Minimal + apt.
I personaly do not like apt, but it is a nice idea. I asume that will be not included to the openSUSE or SUSE possibilaties, because you would get too many KD versions. The same goes for the Gnome one, unless you could do it in such a way that for openSUSE cd1 is KDE, cd2 is Gnome and 3- 5 are all the other things.
I like apt ;) ....
That way you could download 1 or 2 or all 5.
Each CD is really self containing and each CD will contain again and again the same packages. As such you probably would end up with 10 - 20 different iso's. The convenience really comes into place for a straight server/desktop install, where suddenly one does not need to download 5* 700 Mbyte, but only as much as they need. The rest is done online anyhow for most. And of course in a datacentre, where you just want to flick an autoyast file onto one of those CD's and go around and even headless install systems. Or for Install Fests. Who wants to give out 5 CDs each person? Or as marketing gift? And so on
I do not exactly get what you are saying here ... what connections?
rp- pppoe for people who not have an ADSL modem with it's own PPPoE. USB drivers fro some ADSL modems. vwdial for those who need dialup. ISDN for those who have ISDN.
OIC good point. Added to the site. will be in the beta4 iso's ....
So what I was saying is Internet- connections for those who are not connected over a network card.
I also noticed then when I go to the pacages, I get the message it needs to install fontconfig. Not a real problem, but it might confuse others.
That is a bug. My.sel had fam fontconfig instead of fam fontconfig it is on the CD and the packag manager resolved the dependency ... added to the buglist on the site Thanks for the feedback! Andreas