[Mageia-dev] Live CD - when they will be available?

Sun Apr 17 20:04:55 CEST 2011

> Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> writes:
+> 
+> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it> 
+wrote:
+> >> hi,
+> >>
+> >> live cds should be available on 7th of april, we're now on 17th of 
+april...
+> >> they will be released soon or they will be postponed? thanks
+> >>
+> >>
+> >> cheers,
+> >> Marcello
+> >>
+> >
+> > blino was wprking to allow to make libreoffice available on them. Now
+> > it seems ok for libreoffice so maybe some Live can be available soon.
+> >
+> > Olivier, do you have an ETA for this ?
+> 
+> Hi,
+> 
+> No, I don't have any ETA for it (and the 7th of april date seems to come
+> out of nowhere), but we are making some progress here. 
+> 
+> Thanks to you dmorgan, libreoffice can now be installed without java,
+> and the live CD sizes appear to be fine:
+> 
+> 598M mageia-livecd-1-beta1-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso
+> 615M mageia-livecd-1-beta1-GNOME-int-cdrom-x86_64.iso
+> 688M mageia-livecd-1-beta1-KDE4-int-cdrom-i586.iso
+> 704M mageia-livecd-1-beta1-KDE4-int-cdrom-x86_64.iso
+> 
+> Also, the theme should now be ok for GNOME live images.
+> 
+> Though, we still have a few issues remaining:
+> 
+> - KDE: missing draklive-install icon on desktop
+>   -> it seems that the code to handle /usr/share/mga/desktop/ in
+>      /usr/share/kde4/env/kde4-firstsetup.sh is commented
+>   dmorgan, mikala: could you have a look?
+> 
+> - KDE: install error about kdm not found
+> - check that draklive-install entries in menu contain our distro name,
+>   not the legacy one
+> 
+> -- 
+> Olivier Blin - blino
+> 
+
+ok, thanks for the info... i will write a blog post in  
+http://www.mageia.it/blog in order to update the italian community... tell us 
+if there are any news
+
+cheers,
+Marcello
+