[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

Fri Oct 29 20:18:04 CEST 2010

Kira a écrit :
+>
+> 在 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:47:26 +0800, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI 
+> <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org>寫道:
+>> Fot such a case, a CD .iso that does a minimal install (with all locales
+>> offered), and leave the big packages (OO, Gimp, all the games etc) to be
+>> downloaded at leisure later.
+>> Cheers,
+>> Ron.
+> Then they won't be able to demo too much things to other people and
+> gain other's interest into Mageia. If the Live-CD version uses the same
+> strategy as the Mandriva time, then I think there won't be such 
+> Live-CD version.
+> The most close one is the mininal-dual arch CD, but that doesn't work 
+> as Live CD.
+
+It would be useful to have more regional CD ISOs, with fewer 
+localisations, to save a lot of space.
+In the past, my boot/operating system partition had very limited space.
+By removing unused localisations - not counting separate localisation 
+packages, which weren't installed - I was able to save some 15% of 
+installed space on this partition.  (Note that my Home directory and all 
+personnal files were on other partitions.)
+
+I think that OpenOffice (or LibreOffice or Go-OO variants) is important 
+to include.
+By minimizing the localisations, of which each has its own package in 
+Openoffice (or the variants), a lot of space would be freed.
+Excluding Gimp, which is huge, is not a bad idea, as many would not be 
+editing photos, and it could be always downloaded separately.
+As for games, there are many small games - it's just excluding the 
+larger games that would save much space.
+
+By the way, a CD ISO can be written to a DVD.  The advantage is faster 
+and more reliable writing (initially) and faster reading.  As well, a 
+somewhat larger size is not a problem for a DVD.
+Of course it helps to have access to a DVD writer, and at least a reader 
+capable of reading a DVD on the computer of the install.
+
+Note that presently Mandriva has a limited choise of ISOs :
+1) Live installable "one" CDs - which start very slowly, and if 
+installed, don't give a choice of what to install (at least in the past).
+These give a choice of KDE or Gnome desktops, and localisations by (very 
+large) regions.
+Which of course could be installed on a DVD for greater speed.
+
+2) A installable non-live "dual" 32-bit/64-bit CD, for a minimal 
+installation.
+
+3) 2 installable non-live DVDs, one 32-bit, the other 64-bit, for a full 
+installation.
+
+So presently (since at least a year or two) there are no ISOs focused on 
+users who wish make complete installations from CDs, instead of using a 
+DVD, or downloading a lot of applications individually via Internet.
+
+In other words, nothing focused on bandwidth-restricted users.
+Unless, of course, they get the DVD (or CD) without downloading it 
+themselves.
+Which brings to mind the idea of shipping or otherwise distributing 
+ready-written DVDs and live CDs.  And why not a live DVD ?
+
+my 2 cents :)
+
+- André
+