On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:15 -0500, John Davis wrote: > Per Grant's request on -core, here are the releng objectives for 2005. > Chris, if I miss anything, feel free to chime in. > > -Biannual release schedule: Releng is now on a biannual release > schedule. The first release (2005.0) will be in January, and the second > release (2005.1) will be in July/ August. Each release will include > install cds, stages, and grp. > > -LiveCDs: The current style of LiveCDs is going to change. Plans are to > replace the current universal LiveCD with a Knoppix like XLiveCD. Media > will be renamed accordingly; the minimal LiveCD will remain but will > instead be called the minimal installCD. The jury is still out on the > naming for the XLiveCD (but there are ideas floating around releng).
Hmmm ... how about a 200-MB XLiveCD with as much Gentoo as you can cram onto it, a 700 MB XLiveCD with as much Gentoo as you can cram onto it, and a 3.?? GB XLiveDVD with as much Gentoo as you can cram onto it? :) Call them Gentoo XLiveCD Lite, Gentoo XLiveCD Standard and Gentoo XLiveDVD Jumbo! For a look at how much desktop you can get in a 200 MB LiveCD, check out the Morphix Lite LiveCD ... it uses XFCE as a desktop. I've always felt strange about the ~80 MB minimal ... it's too big for a 50 MB CD blank (which are hard to find these days anyhow) and it wastes about 120 MB if you put it on a 200 MB blank. You can put an awful lot of good stuff in a 200 MB live CD -- probably Firefox and Thunderbird, maybe AbiWord and Gnumeric. For me, it's a no-brainer whether I want to carry around a 200 MB CD-RW or a 256 MB USB stick. :) The CD-RW boots more places, is cheaper, and writes faster. -- [email protected] mailing list
