On 03/05/2017 01:45 PM, Kalogrianitis Socratis wrote:
I'm not a developer nor do I work for the VirtualBox team either, but I believe
that the developers include the most common distributions. It has nothing to do
with countries, origins, ethnicity, funding or anything other than popularity
and variety. And sometimes not even that, it's more of an architectural
differences that necessitate the inclusion of a distro or not.
For example, one of the *most* common Linux distributions out there, Mint #1 in
Distro Watch, is not listed *at all* as a VirtualBox option. Why? Because it's
an Ubuntu fork. And you get the same exactly setup if you select Ubuntu as your
template. And that's what you do. For BlackPanther, from what I read, you
should select Mandriva, but you could easily educate your users about that.
Given the fact that BlackPanther is now listed as #188 in the Distro Watch site
(http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=BlackPanther), I'd say the
chances of it being included are not that high, but I'm not making that
decision. Can you imagine what would happen if you had 200 or more options for
selecting an operating system? I (as a user) would be really, really confused.
@Stéphane
The selection is definitely more than an icon. Just take a look at
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/NetworkServices/DHCP/Config.cpp
to see what constitutes a template. Besides the changes in the original
template setup, there are also run-time options that modify/change/alter the
behavior of the VM. A lot... I'm talking booting vs. not booting if you select
the wrong template/version.
@Gabor
If you submit a patch, make sure it also has its own icon, otherwise it's not a
complete patch. Although I wouldn't keep my hopes too high ;)
I downloaded the free Live CD for BlackPanther and installed it on my "junk" VM.
I changed the type to "Other Linux (64 bits)" and it installed fine. The only
hitch was that the VM originally had 1 GB RAM, and an install from the Live CD
needed 1.5 GB. Frankly, I do not see what needs to be patched.
Larry
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