On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:45 -0800, M. Edward Borasky wrote: > 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.
As the one doing the work in making the X-based LiveCD, I can tell you that I would really rather not waste the time. The reason is due to our intentions for the X-based LiveCD to replace both the Universal and the Package CD. This would not be possible with a "lite" version. As for the DVD? Well, we could do it over BitTorrent only, as our mirror space is at a premium already. > 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. You must have missed the 50MB x86 minimal LiveCD for 2004.3, then... ;] Anyway, the general idea is to make the minimal smaller and the X-based LiveCD to fill up a CD with as much as we can cram in it. We will probably look into providing a DVD at some point, but if we're successful in building the X-based LiveCD how we want it, there will be little need for it until we find a bunch more common applications to add. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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