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在 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:47:26 +0800, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
<[email protected]>寫道:
Fot such a case, a CD .iso that does a minimal install (with all locales
offered), and leave the big packages (OO, Gimp, all the games etc) to be
downloaded at leisure later.
Cheers,
Ron.
Then they won't be able to demo too much things to other people and
gain other's interest into Mageia. If the Live-CD version uses the same
strategy as the Mandriva time, then I think there won't be such
Live-CD version.
The most close one is the mininal-dual arch CD, but that doesn't work
as Live CD.
It would be useful to have more regional CD ISOs, with fewer
localisations, to save a lot of space.
In the past, my boot/operating system partition had very limited space.
By removing unused localisations - not counting separate localisation
packages, which weren't installed - I was able to save some 15% of
installed space on this partition. (Note that my Home directory and all
personnal files were on other partitions.)
I think that OpenOffice (or LibreOffice or Go-OO variants) is important
to include.
By minimizing the localisations, of which each has its own package in
Openoffice (or the variants), a lot of space would be freed.
Excluding Gimp, which is huge, is not a bad idea, as many would not be
editing photos, and it could be always downloaded separately.
As for games, there are many small games - it's just excluding the
larger games that would save much space.
By the way, a CD ISO can be written to a DVD. The advantage is faster
and more reliable writing (initially) and faster reading. As well, a
somewhat larger size is not a problem for a DVD.
Of course it helps to have access to a DVD writer, and at least a reader
capable of reading a DVD on the computer of the install.
Note that presently Mandriva has a limited choise of ISOs :
1) Live installable "one" CDs - which start very slowly, and if
installed, don't give a choice of what to install (at least in the past).
These give a choice of KDE or Gnome desktops, and localisations by (very
large) regions.
Which of course could be installed on a DVD for greater speed.
2) A installable non-live "dual" 32-bit/64-bit CD, for a minimal
installation.
3) 2 installable non-live DVDs, one 32-bit, the other 64-bit, for a full
installation.
So presently (since at least a year or two) there are no ISOs focused on
users who wish make complete installations from CDs, instead of using a
DVD, or downloading a lot of applications individually via Internet.
In other words, nothing focused on bandwidth-restricted users.
Unless, of course, they get the DVD (or CD) without downloading it
themselves.
Which brings to mind the idea of shipping or otherwise distributing
ready-written DVDs and live CDs. And why not a live DVD ?
my 2 cents :)
- André
