[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/9/19 Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de>:
> 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
>>r
> Looks very similar to my proposal, doesn't it? :)

Yes, I took the proposal of the 4 life isos from your mail, but only
to make my view complete. My main concern is the reasoning in favor of
the Free DVD.

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wobo