[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

Claire Revillet grenoya at zarb.org
Wed Sep 19 14:23:10 CEST 2012


Le 19/09/12 10:17, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Anne Nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for final
>> release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we need to take
>> some decisions.
>>
>> Here are some prerequisites I can see for what I can read in comments and
>> review about Mageia on the web.
>>
>> - provide a full open source software version
>> - provide CD iso(s) so that it can be quick to download (people having low
>> band-width or paying depending how much they use it)
>> - provide live version(s)
>> - decrease isos number. QA is just a hell on the set we had for Mageia 2
>> - provide localization as large as possible
>> - provide isos including major drivers including proprietary one to make it
>> easier to install and configure
>>
>> Keep in mind that what you want is not necessarily what another one want. So
>> let start proposals here and discussion. Please add all explanations to your
>> proposal.
> I would vote for
> - Live DVDs (1 per arch)
> - dual arch free CD
> - dual arch nonfree CD
that seems good :)
>
> maybe we can replace the dual-arch CDs by enlarged boot.iso, need to
> send more about it :)
it may be as problematic as boot.iso for people with bad connections. I 
personally prefer a CD that brings correctly the base system than rely 
on my connection and finish with an installation without rpm (as it did 
once).

Claire


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