Hi, Back to the FreeDOS 2.0 topic…
Jim has mentioned the possibility of slimming down the release some for 2.0. At present we have the options of BASE, BASE + SOURCES, FULL, FULL + SOURCES durning installation. But with how easy package installation is after the initial install using FDIMPLES, I wonder why bother with FULL at all? Why not just install BASE? The user could install additional packages later. As for the option to install SOURCES? IDK. I think the vast majority don’t care. As for the rest, the sources are in the packages. But, do we need to ask everyone to make it slightly easier for a select few during normal installation? In other words, during normal install may it not be better to just skip the "pick you package set with / without sources” prompt and just go straight to “install now” and install BASE w/o sources. Then in advanced mode provide the existing BASE & BASE with SOURCES and the CUSTOMIZED with or without sources” options? (Advanced mode already provides the customized options during install). ( Eventually, FDIMPLES will get support for multiple online repositories. For now, it is limited to using local media (InstallCD, BonusCD, RepoCD, USB stick, HD Path, etc). However it does offer some more advanced features like package change sets to automatically add/remove a user’s custom package preferences. I think few (if any) users know about or use those features. ) As for the Live Environment, I’ll leave that for later. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
