(I'm re-sharing this note from my get-together "followup" email so more people will see it)
We talked again about the test release, and focusing the LiveCD to something you can boot and run FreeDOS without installing it to a hard disk, but also having all the "core" packages on it so you can install a working not-minimal FreeDOS from it if you want to install to a system. The BonusCD should be all the developer packages, "power tools," etc. So I wanted to jump-start that conversation again on the email list. More detail from me: I'd like to "lean into" the LiveCD concept, and have a FreeDOS CD that I can just boot and not have to install anything. I've actually been doing that more recently for some one-off demos (like the YouTube videos). There's no point in doing a full install if I can just boot the LiveCD and connect it to a hard drive image where I have some demo apps. In my mind, I'd love for the LiveCD to have a bootable version of FreeDOS with a few apps that folks can run. For those who want to install FreeDOS, the LiveCD should have all of the packages from the "live" instance, plus any other useful apps (apps that wouldn't otherwise make sense to include in the "live" instance). The BonusCD should have all the developer tools and power tools. No "live" version there, just packages to install. We've talked before about free space on the LiveCD and BonusCD, but there are also some packages duplicated between the LiveCD and BonusCD (you can install from either CD). You can find them in the report: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/report.html I wonder if we can do this for a future monthly Test distribution. I think with the holidays, this is probably something for the "2402" Test distribution. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel