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

Tue Oct 2 20:47:48 CEST 2012

02.10.2012 21:37, Christian Lohmaier skrev:
+> HI Anne, *,
+>
+> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Anne Nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> 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
+>>
+>> 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
+>
+> Not happy with this solution.
+> DVDs / the full set of packages is so *not* needed.
+>
+
+Actally the DVD part is because we go over 700M...
+(so no "CD" format anymore)
+
+It does not mean we will make 4G liveDVD
+(wich might be ~16G installed size)
+
+> Downoad 4GB just to have 3GB obsoleted in a few months. :-((
+>
+> Just create USB-editions of the english only media with additional languages.
+>
+> So what fits into 700MB en-US only, will fit into <1GB for all languages.
+>
+
+Current liveDVD images are around 1G with all languages,
+and that is somewhat matching what we will ship ...
+but final size depends on package selection...
+
+> As was written numerous times: Most people don't burn actual CDs
+> anymore, but rather put the image onto usb-sticks.
+
+Actually people do both...
+
+
+--
+
+Thomas
+
+