Another good idea that I remember from SUSE 9.1 Personal days, is that the OS generally *can* reside in a single CD. We should use that single CD for alpha tests, + mirrors for apps, and use the 10 CDs for final version only. Not the "net" install CD, but a fully functional OS like SUSE Personal was. This way much of the common stuff will get installed anyways, w/o waiting looong hours for minimal OS install. (for me minimal means KDE+console basesystem).
This is better than the "net" approach because very often "alpha" versions got installed several times on several machines. With net-CD approach I would spend 2-hours for each setup (and re-setup), effectively killing the alpha-testing stage. While the single CD, like SUSE personal is enough to find many of the problems of the future OS, and get it installed in 20-30 minutes per PC. Perhaps, we will *need* to publish the full 10CD set for Release Candidates to test the bundle fully, along with software. As for the retailed version, it's more-or-less good, but I don't like that it doesn't ship with source code. Also really, if Debian takes 14 CDs, why we should take less ? (for SUSE Professional) But it's a good idea to revive the old tradition of the 1CD install for SUSE Personal. Both for testing and new customers.
