[Pardus-devel] Ideas for a Pardus DVD edition.

[Michael Aust]

On 15/04/07, S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at pardus.org.tr> wrote:

> 14 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Michael Aust şunları yazmıştı:
> > I was just thinking about wether it would be a good idea for a DVD
> > edition of Pardus?  My main idea would be to include both the live CD
> > and the install CD on one DVD, rather than two separate Cd's.  At the
> > GRUB screen the user could choose the mode they wish to boot (live CD
> > or Install) in the same manor as the Freespire Cd's work.
>
> I think that's a good idea.

I also forgot to mention, like the Freespire approach I mentioned that
the installer and live CD should be on the same DVD, but kept
seperate.  I have found that installers running from a DE e.g. Ubuntu,
Mepis, PCLinuxOS are an awful lot slower and processor intensive then
a straight installer.

Not to mention saving the confusion caused by having two CD's.  It is
difficult enough given that the iso files are named in turkish for
non-turkish speakers (I know the projects priority is to cater for
Turkish users).  Further to this new users can be confused by the term
install CD and Live CD.  So a single DVD for installing/live CD would
make the whole process easier for all users alike, regardless of there
language.


> > My second idea is that an more extensive package list could be
> > available.  I don't know how big the entire stable repository is, but
> > if it is small enough, the entire stable repository could be included
> > on the DVD.  To me this seems appropriate given that the Stable
> > repository is only small and is not constantlyinundated with updates.
>
> Stable repo. is currently 4.4GB so im not sure giving whole repo. into DVD
> is
> a good idea :P

Well how about, offering the most popular packages that are not found
in the install CD.  From the logs, couldnt the mos popular packages
from each category be offered as an alternative CD?  E.g. The most
popular kde related packages could be offered on the CD as well as
PHP, Apache, Perl, MySQL and the other most popular packages not found
on the install CD.

Michael (tuxedup)
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