[Frugalware-devel] fwlive-minimal pushed

Alex Smith alex at alex-smith.me.uk
Sat Oct 14 21:52:15 CEST 2006


VOROSKOI Andras wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:24:07PM +0200, CSÉCSY László wrote:
>> 2. Install X on it, in different flavours:
>> 2a. KDE
>> 2b. GNOME
>> 2c. XFCE
>> 2d. others?
> 
> Are you sure we need this all? IMO a KDE one and an XFCE with *box is
> enough.

That wouldn't make me or krix happy. ;) I agree with VMiklos - if we can 
fit Xfce on the Gnome one, it would be good.

> 
>> 3. Make some localized builds:
>> 3a. English
>> 3b. Hungarian
>> 3c. German
>> 3d. others?
>> Now it's Hungarian. It should be argued that which pkg's should be localized. 
>> Everything which we can install from fpm's? Only OOo & DE? What l10n should 
>> OOo have: only UI, or dicts as well?
>> So we now have {k,g,x}fwlive-{en,hu,de}, which is 9 (nine) .iso's.
> 
> If we create a localized one that should contain all necessary file.
> Including dicts etc.
> 
>> 4. x86_64 version? This way we would have 18 (eighteen) .iso's. ;)
> 
> Does not make sense on livecd.

But then again, if we go down the installer route, then we'd need one 
for x86_64 users to be able to use the installer.

> 
> And i agree with Alex too. Having a livecd with and installer is quite
> cool. People can download the livecd and see if they really want this
> distro or not. It's far better than a simple graphical installer.
> 

Yup, it'd increase our 1337-rating. :D

Thanks,
Alex

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Alex Smith
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