[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

Wed Sep 19 10:20:26 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Antoine Pitrou at 19/09/12 09:11 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:40:27 +0200
+> Anne Nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Hi there
+>>
+>> So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for 
+>> final release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we 
+>> need to take some decisions.
+>>
+>> Here are some prerequisites I can see for what I can read in comments 
+>> and review about Mageia on the web.
+>>
+>> - provide a full open source software version
+> 
+> Is that necessary? Instead you could have a checkbox "install
+> optional proprietary software" in the installer.
+
+I would personally prefer this too. That said, having a separate
+repository on the media itself is almost the same as having two iso's
+with different package selections (where one is a subset of the other),
+so in terms of QA, it's about the same (less downloading but the same
+number of installs).
+
+Still probably a net positive tho'.
+
+>> - provide CD iso(s) so that it can be quick to download (people having 
+>> low band-width or paying depending how much they use it)
+>> - provide live version(s)
+> 
+> IMHO you could simply go for CD == live (and installable).
+
+Perhaps, but the "live version(s)" did not necessarily specify a CD...
+it could well have been a Live DVD. So I guess that's a question to
+answer, should the live media be CD sized? (and I don't want to suggest
+for a second that it would be worth providing both!)
+
+Col
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