[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

Wed Sep 19 16:53:37 CEST 2012

2012/9/19 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
+> 2012/9/19 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
+>>> Is that necessary? Instead you could have a checkbox "install
+>>> optional proprietary software" in the installer.
+>>
+>> This allows for example magazines to distribute it
+>
+> Are paper magazines still relevant here? (true question)
+
+Yes, they are an important distribution method. Additionally there
+will be reviews/articles accompanying the cover DVDs. Don't forget,
+this is cost free advertizing!
+
+My view:
+
+ - Free DVD (32/64) with a proper installer - distributing only live
+media is a bad habit of some distributors, let's make a difference
+there! As we have support of the idea of free software written in our
+values we should stick to that. In addition to that we could include
+non-free firmware in a part of the DVD, to be activated in the
+installer (opt-in).
+
+ - 4 life ISOs (Gnome & KDE, 32 & 64) for USB sticks (up to 1GB), they
+work for all kinds of machines, even such without optical drives. The
+additional space would be enough to include all langs.
+
+ - boot.iso, this is done anyway, so it's no extra work
+
+-- 
+wobo
+
+ -
+