I was going to comment on this in isolation, but a couple of other messages beat me to it. So I'll start from those.
David Comay said: Given how little a CD can hold, how important is that the "live" media actually be a CD versus something like a DVD? If the requirement is really around a CD, again what are the attributes/features that the live environment should contain? Which tools, languages, drivers, etc? And Alberto Ruiz replied: Not everyone has DVD readers. We did a DVD version for the university distribution that I made when I was working there, and found that much more people than expected don't have DVD readers yet, even with not so old machines. That's one reason for a CD: the existence of a population of possible users that only have a CD to boot from. There's a second population, who may have a DVD reader, but only a CD writer. They can download the iso image, and need to burn it - so it has to be onto a CD. Another argument for keeping the core small is that not everybody has enormous bandwidth, and may have download limits we could bump up against. Speaking for myself, downloading something the size of Solaris Express is a huge pain. (Especially when it contains a lot of junk I don't want.) Having a CD as a constraint is also going to act as an encouragement to avoid bloat and keep things tight. I think it will impose discipline. Is it worth thinking about other size points? For example, something like a 512M or 1G memory stick? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
