[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

[Thorsten van Lil]

Am 19.09.2012 16:53, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
> 2012/9/19 Romain d'Alverny<rdalverny at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/9/19 Pascal Terjan<pterjan at gmail.com>:
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net>  wrote:
>>>> Is that necessary? Instead you could have a checkbox "install
>>>> optional proprietary software" in the installer.
>>>
>>> This allows for example magazines to distribute it
>>
>> Are paper magazines still relevant here? (true question)
>
> Yes, they are an important distribution method. Additionally there
> will be reviews/articles accompanying the cover DVDs. Don't forget,
> this is cost free advertizing!
>
> My view:
>
>   - Free DVD (32/64) with a proper installer - distributing only live
> media is a bad habit of some distributors, let's make a difference
> there! As we have support of the idea of free software written in our
> values we should stick to that. In addition to that we could include
> non-free firmware in a part of the DVD, to be activated in the
> installer (opt-in).
>
>   - 4 life ISOs (Gnome&  KDE, 32&  64) for USB sticks (up to 1GB), they
> work for all kinds of machines, even such without optical drives. The
> additional space would be enough to include all langs.
>
>   - boot.iso, this is done anyway, so it's no extra work
>
Looks very similar to my proposal, doesn't it? :)

Greetings,
Thorsten