On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:21, Dan LaBine wrote:
> ET wrote:
> > do you remeber on this list some many years ago we had some of the
> > folks (Yama, Thac, Texstar) who started PClinuxOS? check it out,,,
> > maybe the natural next step...
>
> Yup. I know PCLinuxOS very well actually. I've been following it for
> the last few years. It's certainly a great place to start, and it
> wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of 'Mandrivian's' (?) switch over
> to it.
>
> They have some very good forums and requests for help are pretty fast
> too. That might be the way to go but as a possible alternative, we
> might want to consider doing one of our own as well.
>
> I think LiveCD's are a great thing - a wonderful invention, but I'd
> be interested in seeing how far we could take an rpm-based distro, as
> opposed to a SquashFS distro like PCLOS. At the same time, I think it
> would be great to offer a LiveCD version especially for recent Linux
> converts as a simple way to verify hardware compatibility prior to
> installing, but I'd still like to have an RPM-based installer for
> specific uses which allows individuals to install only the
> applications, software, desktops, etc., that they prefer.
>
> Kinda like merging the best of both worlds. I'd certainly be willing
> to host a mailing list to get the ball rolling and I'm planning to
> upgrade to one or two 10Mbps connections (it's been planned already)
> within the next 3 months here that would be a great place for hosting
> the project.
>
> One idea I had (since you asked! Grin!), was to build a very small
> LiveCD version, which would provide you only with some basic tools
> (to be determined) and a minimal desktop, with one distinction - as
> soon as the install was completed and the user rebooted, the system
> would ask whether or not you wanted to update your install, or netter
> still, connect to a mirror and install groups of packages - ie;
> 'Would you like to install another desktop environment?', which would
> then take the user to a mirror and would automate the download and
> install process for whichever desktop the user might want - but it
> would download and install a complete desktop 'kit' as one
> pre-determined set of packages. Main RPM's, Libs and dependancies all
> at one time.
>
> CD's could be made available for those who lack high-speed or
> broadband connections and I'm sure that we'd see a lot of the 'Cheap
> CD' sites add us to their list of available distros.
>
> Thoughts? Ideas?
DSL linux has proved that you can put a distro in 50Mb or less
a CD single holds about 250 Mb I think that a distro that would fit on
one of those would have the advantage of a fast install
>
>
> Dan
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