[Mageia-dev] Final set of isos for Mageia 3

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <remi at verschelde.fr>:
> 2012/10/2 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
>> 2012/10/2 Rémi Verschelde <remi at verschelde.fr>:
>>>
>>> But I guess I may have misunderstood your point.
>>
>> Yes, you did :)
>>
>> 1. My proposal was in no way ro replace all ISOs. There must be some
>> "master" ISOs which went through Mageia QA and are distributed as
>> "official" ISOs. But the number of different ISOs can be reduced
>> further than currently planned.
>>
>> 2. Of course one who wants to create a custom ISO has to install
>> Mageia first - this he could do using the smallest way there is,
>> another live cd, no matter which flavor.
>>
>> But the advantage is, from this one download and installation he can
>> produce any flavor for any purpose he wants. Example:
>>
>> I would only need one English live cd. From this I could install the
>> system. And then I could create
>>  - live cd with German with the DE of my choice and the software of my
>> personal choice
>>  - live cd in German for German events and to demonstrate to friends
>>  - live cd in German for a magazine, customized to their wishes,
>> etc.
>>
>> All this also helps to keep everybody satisfied, not only the part who
>> is satisfied with the original Mageia ISOs. As such it would reduce
>> work for Mageia.
>>
>> --
>> wobo
>
> Danke für die Erklärung :)
>
> Then that makes sense and I can see your point. The “Live-CD
> generator” would be used by advanced users, e.g. by Mageia
> contributors wanting to create a set of German LiveCDs for the
> LinuxTag in Berlin, and the average users could still download our
> tested ISOs with all locales on the LiveDVDs / DVDs or in English on
> the LiveCDs.

Or we could do the obvioous:
 - local user organisations could provide localized live cd isos on
their servers,
 - supporters in such organisations or local "Mageia Usergroups" could
make customized ISOs on request
 - They could have workshops at events on how to roll your own, etc.

There are lots of possibilities, each one of them an improvement of
"marketing". :)

All it needs is either such a userfriendly system or at least an easy
understandable How-To in the Mageia wiki. In the German MandrivaUser
wiki we did that with a special Mandriva release.

It's just an idea that came to my mind because I have a problem with
the list of planned MGA3 isos (I wrote about that earlier in this
thread).

-- 
wobo