Hi all, We hit a limit. Apparently, between Sunday the 26th and Monday the 27th, the squashfs hit the technical limit of 4.0GB on our ISO image. Per ISO 9660, this is a hard limit as the file system is incapable of having a single file more than 4GB in size (the squashfs acts as a single file on the root of the ISO). Unfortunately, this means we need to take a hard look at what we preinstall by default and start eliminating some items.
As an emergency, I went ahead and removed a few duplicate items and one fairly large item, but it opened my eyes to a bigger picture issue. More on that later. In terms of deduplicating functionality, I removed jackd (not jackd2) since you can only have one anyhow. Also, I removed lmms which, in mine and Len's opinion, is an application that is stuck in the past using the older ladpsa (LV1) plugins and refuses to get any update. This is in favor of Ardour as our DAW of choice. Other items: * Switched from ksysguard to the new plasma-systemmonitor for the desktop * Removed raysession in favor of agordejo and new-session-manager combined, which provides the same functionality with more backend support. * Removed simple-scan in favor of skanlite (a KDE scanner app) However, this is just a bandaid. My proposal is that we drop publishing as a category of apps that we install beginning with 22.04. My reasoning is that we're not very well-known for being a desktop publishing platform, and it blurs the line between "studio" and general-purpose. Moreover, people doing desktop publishing aren't exactly looking at Ubuntu Studio as we rarely see any questions about it. In fact, when people are reviewing Studio, they're a little surprised and perplexed to see such tools. Len pointed out that while we could remove the publishing items, he feared that items in the graphics category would get removed. I assured him that this is not the case; that while there's some overlap, removing the publishing meta would not remove any graphics items since the graphics meta still pullse those items in. Removing the publishing meta would remove the following from the ISO: * scribus * calibre * pdfshuffler * plume-creator I know this doesn't sound like much, but I think it would be good to save some space and no longer support desktop publishing as a category of items we install by default. Let me know what you think. Erich -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio Member - Ubuntu Community Council
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