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

Wed Oct 3 00:13:27 CEST 2012

2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <remi at verschelde.fr>:
+> 2012/10/2 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>> 2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <remi at verschelde.fr>:
+>>>
+>>> But I guess I may have misunderstood your point.
+>>
+>> Yes, you did :)
+>>
+>> 1. My proposal was in no way ro replace all ISOs. There must be some
+>> "master" ISOs which went through Mageia QA and are distributed as
+>> "official" ISOs. But the number of different ISOs can be reduced
+>> further than currently planned.
+>>
+>> 2. Of course one who wants to create a custom ISO has to install
+>> Mageia first - this he could do using the smallest way there is,
+>> another live cd, no matter which flavor.
+>>
+>> But the advantage is, from this one download and installation he can
+>> produce any flavor for any purpose he wants. Example:
+>>
+>> I would only need one English live cd. From this I could install the
+>> system. And then I could create
+>>  - live cd with German with the DE of my choice and the software of my
+>> personal choice
+>>  - live cd in German for German events and to demonstrate to friends
+>>  - live cd in German for a magazine, customized to their wishes,
+>> etc.
+>>
+>> All this also helps to keep everybody satisfied, not only the part who
+>> is satisfied with the original Mageia ISOs. As such it would reduce
+>> work for Mageia.
+>>
+>> --
+>> wobo
+>
+> Danke für die Erklärung :)
+>
+> Then that makes sense and I can see your point. The “Live-CD
+> generator” would be used by advanced users, e.g. by Mageia
+> contributors wanting to create a set of German LiveCDs for the
+> LinuxTag in Berlin, and the average users could still download our
+> tested ISOs with all locales on the LiveDVDs / DVDs or in English on
+> the LiveCDs.
+
+Or we could do the obvioous:
+ - local user organisations could provide localized live cd isos on
+their servers,
+ - supporters in such organisations or local "Mageia Usergroups" could
+make customized ISOs on request
+ - They could have workshops at events on how to roll your own, etc.
+
+There are lots of possibilities, each one of them an improvement of
+"marketing". :)
+
+All it needs is either such a userfriendly system or at least an easy
+understandable How-To in the Mageia wiki. In the German MandrivaUser
+wiki we did that with a special Mandriva release.
+
+It's just an idea that came to my mind because I have a problem with
+the list of planned MGA3 isos (I wrote about that earlier in this
+thread).
+
+-- 
+wobo
+