Excerpt from Jerome Shidel: > Requires only one local or remote machine running Linux and > an internet connection to fetch packages and installer sources. > (only OpenSUSE and Fedora supported at present) > Uses the latest repo packages. > Easily change USB stick sizes. > Support for multi-language package meta-data > NO extra steps for CD ISOs > More Developer Friendly Package Lists > Less tedious and mistake prone. > (Multiple steps eliminated. One command builds an entire release) > A couple more release customization settings > Install media package location validation and adjusting > Easier for a tinkerer to make a custom release > 12x faster and more robust > Support to add additional media types or sizes > Some other minor stuff
> I think, that overall, the new process is far superior to the previous one. > However with all of that being said, I thought that using FreeDOS to build a > FreeDOS release > in 1.2 was really cool. As far as I could tell, except for one person, nobody > had any interest > or used that ability. But, I thought it was awesome. Perhaps, Iâll > resurrect that ability in the > future. > Jerome Making the installation depend on having one of two Linux distributions is severely limiting, I would say a show stopper. Using FreeDOS 1.2 to build a release would be cool, but installation should also be accessible to users-to-be who have no FreeDOS installation to start. Installation of FreeDOS should be feasible from any OS that can read and write FAT32, meaning Linux, Haiku, *BSD, Mac OS, and even MS-Windows. Tom
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