Hi, I can see two objectives here. First objective is to have a high installation success rate. And second objective is to have happy users from both camps; the GNU-purists-camp and the don't-care-camp.
I think the GNU-purists-camp is a minority here, but I could be wrong, I never counted them. For them I would make a pure installation DVDs of all editions, like Desktop, Server, Live, etc. I bet all purists are expert Linux users and they know enough about their hardware and if there are GNU drivers for it. On the other hand, the don't-care-camp needs stuff that works. They don't care where it comes from, and they never read the messages. They just click through. For them I would make a mixed DVD with pre-selected components that have higher success rate. For example, if we know that non-free radeon drivers install better than the free ones, don't ask the user at all just go ahead and install the non-free version. This way, we are making the users choose early way before they start installing. I would also call those editions like this: 1g) Mageia 3 Server (G) Installation DVD i686 - Includes GNU drivers 1v) Mageia 3 Server (V) Installation DVD i686 - Includes Vendor drivers We would also say "If you don't know which to choose, go for Vendor editions" I think providing free and non-free installation media will increase Mageia's quality and reputation. But, everything must be in a single DVD because there are laptops, servers, and desktops with Broadcom PHY's and they can't get supplemental DVD's or packages without a working network card or wifi. Putting them all together in a single non-free DVD will increase the installation success rate for sure. And at last let me introduce my self. My name is Agron Selimaj. I am an experienced Linux user and programmer. I have 11 years of Linux experience and I am a Mandriva Powerpack user since 2006 or 2007. I am a professional C++ programmer for Windows, Linux embedded and Linux Desktops at my day job. I like the spirit of Mageia creators and I would like to join you. At the moment, I am an apprentice candidate waiting for a mentor to guide me through package creation process, bug fixing, etc. //Agron On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Angelo Naselli <anase...@linux.it> wrote: > mercoledì 30 maggio 2012 alle 16:38, Johnny A. Solbu ha scritto: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2012 16:20, Angelo Naselli wrote: > > > If you really mean that you should also remove non-free repositories > etc... > > > I don't think being a don Quijote is that good... always imho of > course. > > > > They do exactly that. They do not have any non-free repo. They have a > policy that do not allow any non-free software (programs, drivers, firmware > etc.) in their distributions, and they don't have any exceptions. > > Some might find this silly and stupid. But they live by the rule that > every software should be Free. If it is not, they will not use it because > they can't do what they want with it. > > > > My point is just that there really do exist several distributions that > do not allow any non-free software in their repositories. if they don't > have any non-free software there is no point in having an empty non-free > repo. The way Thierry listed the two categories he seemed to suggest that > there where no such distributions. > > That's sounds different of course, i thought you referred to us ;) > >