[Mageia-dev] Final set of isos for Mageia 3

Tue Oct 2 20:09:41 CEST 2012

2012/10/2 Anne Nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com>:
+> Hi there
+>
+> So as planned when starting discussion, here is the final set of isos that
+> will be built for Mageia 3. We have listed all the proposals and
+> explanations (from both this ML and forums) to find a list that would
+> satisfy most of Mageia users.
+>
+> Here is the list (Thanks MrsB for doing it first :) ):
+>
+> 2 liveCDs:
+>
+>  - GNOME 700M i586 - english only - Nonfree
+>  - KDE   700M i586 - english only - Nonfree
+>
+> These are mainly targetted for distribution during events or for Newspapers
+
+What about events and newspapers outside of the USA and UK? You don't
+expect us (for ex: in Germany) to demonstrate Mageia in a foreign
+language or German magazines to distribute cover cds with Mageia in a
+foreign language? Of course this goes for all other countries as well.
+
+This proposal may have received a majority of "votes" because
+residents of USA and UK are the majority of participants in the
+mailing list. Everybody else (the majority of Mageia promoters) would
+have no live cds but will need to use the DVDs.
+
+Pls consider instead cds which cover the main languages (English,
+French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portoguese). EN covering North
+America and India, Spanish+Portoguese covering all of South America,
+French and English covering most of Africa, all 6 covering most of
+Europe. Which make at least more than 2 of the 3 major areas instead
+of North America and UK.
+
+Before there were live cds (700MB) with 6 and more langages, so a cd
+with these 6 instead of one language would not make a difference, or
+will Mageia 3 need that much more space than Mageia 2?
+
+> 4 liveDVDs:
+>
+>  - GNOME DVD i586   - all locales - Nonfree
+>  - GNOME DVD x86_64 - all locales - Nonfree
+>  - KDE   DVD i586   - all locales - Nonfree
+>  - KDE   DVD x86_64 - all locales - Nonfree
+>
+> Classic Installation ISOs
+>
+>  - LXDE DualCD - all locales - Free only
+>  - DVD i586    - all locales - Free/Nonfree
+>  - DVD x86_64  - all locales - Free/Nonfree
+>
+> DVDs will propose by default 100% free software installation. Users will be
+> asked if he wants to use non free drivers. This is still to be done inside
+> drakx installer and will not be available yet for alpha 2 release.
+>
+> Cheers
+> --
+> Anne
+> http://mageia.org
+