Hi! On 7/9/06, Peter Flodin <peter@flodin.net> wrote:
I see that it could be the base of many custom versions of SUSE, a MythTV SUSE, a thinclient SUSE, router SUSE, etc.
I just installed 10.1 on my VMware as test. This time I wanted to create a small installation. I'm not exactly a new Linux or SUSE user, but still I do not know all the packages that I should select in all cases (there are a few of them). So I was thinking that the installation gives some predefined selections - so let's test those! The choices were about these 1) Gnome 2) KDE 3) Minimal X support 4) No X Not much choices... I chose minimal X support (because, YaST is the reason why I use SUSE - yes, it can be used from the comman line also). The end result: I was using more than 800Mb of disk (probably close to 900). Later on at the installation, I chose the new network managing system (to see how it works). Suddenly it installed KDE base libraries. Now after everything is done, I'm already using 1.2Gb of disk! The bloat is here somewhere! So, I'm very interested in miniSUSE. But can it be implemented just by creating number of different predefined package selections to start from at installation time. You could have things like: 1) Full KDE 2) Minimal KDE 3) Minimal X with other than Gnome/KDE 4) Home server (nfs+samba+ssh+apache+minimal X) 5) Home server with minimal KDE 6) Old computer 7) Laptop with KDE 8) Old laptop with lightwight X 9) MythTV 10) Thinclient 11) Firewall router 12) ... That way you would not have to make another distribution of it, but have the mini-ideas included in the normal SUSE distribution. I think the integration would be easier, and people the selection would then be easier to grow according to everybody's needs. Of course, installation media needs to be rethought. But maybe the minimal installation packages could be on the first CD and rest on the other ones. Then give a warning if some "non-mini" is selected that you need another media or pointer to internet source. And for the current mini/one-CD/internet-installation, there would be no changes except having more predefined packages choices. What do you think? -- HG. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org