2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <[email protected]>: > 2012/10/2 Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]>: >> 2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <[email protected]>: >>> >>> But I guess I may have misunderstood your point. >> >> Yes, you did :) >> >> 1. My proposal was in no way ro replace all ISOs. There must be some >> "master" ISOs which went through Mageia QA and are distributed as >> "official" ISOs. But the number of different ISOs can be reduced >> further than currently planned. >> >> 2. Of course one who wants to create a custom ISO has to install >> Mageia first - this he could do using the smallest way there is, >> another live cd, no matter which flavor. >> >> But the advantage is, from this one download and installation he can >> produce any flavor for any purpose he wants. Example: >> >> I would only need one English live cd. From this I could install the >> system. And then I could create >> - live cd with German with the DE of my choice and the software of my >> personal choice >> - live cd in German for German events and to demonstrate to friends >> - live cd in German for a magazine, customized to their wishes, >> etc. >> >> All this also helps to keep everybody satisfied, not only the part who >> is satisfied with the original Mageia ISOs. As such it would reduce >> work for Mageia. >> >> -- >> wobo > > Danke für die Erklärung :) > > Then that makes sense and I can see your point. The “Live-CD > generator” would be used by advanced users, e.g. by Mageia > contributors wanting to create a set of German LiveCDs for the > LinuxTag in Berlin, and the average users could still download our > tested ISOs with all locales on the LiveDVDs / DVDs or in English on > the LiveCDs.
Or we could do the obvioous: - local user organisations could provide localized live cd isos on their servers, - supporters in such organisations or local "Mageia Usergroups" could make customized ISOs on request - They could have workshops at events on how to roll your own, etc. There are lots of possibilities, each one of them an improvement of "marketing". :) All it needs is either such a userfriendly system or at least an easy understandable How-To in the Mageia wiki. In the German MandrivaUser wiki we did that with a special Mandriva release. It's just an idea that came to my mind because I have a problem with the list of planned MGA3 isos (I wrote about that earlier in this thread). -- wobo
