On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Andi Payn wrote: > Provide, in addition to the 3-CD distribution, a "mini" version that provides > just enough to get you up and running and install other packages. You could > download, say, a 150MB ISO for English, or a 180MB ISO for some other > language (if there were people interested in maintaining a mini-distro for > that language), instead of 2GB with everything. You'd have a basic KDE > desktop only, everything needed to get on a LAN or cable/DSL connection, all > of the packaging tools, the core development packages, and some of the > setup/configuration tools, but few applications, no servers, etc.
I've thought of creating separate sub-distros for various uses. For instance, there could be a Mandrake Laptop Edition, with a kernel and pacakge set optimized for laptops (possibly with fewer servers), a Mandrake Multimedia Edition (for A/V work) with multimedia kernels by default and a selection of packages that would normally be in contribs in the main distro. Each of the 9.2 editions would be compatible (ie you could take a Standard Edition package and install it on a Laptop Edition install) and stem from the same Cooker process. Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
