Fabian,
I think the browser is the one component you must not remove from the Live "CD". I agree with Manuel, just take as much space as is needed to do a reasonable job and make sure dd-ing to USB stick works. Don't publish handicaped ISOs. :)
Most people's machines nowadays hardly even have a DVD reader, let alone a CD one; e.g the last laptop I bought (2 years ago) came without such optical unit.
Lucian
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From: "Fabian Arrotin" arrfab@centos.org To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 14:42:43 Subject: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey
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Hi,
While working on the next 7.1511 Live media, I discovered that the size for the actual CentOS 7 LiveCD would be more than 700MB.
It's due to some packages being now bigger and bigger, also due to the big Gnome 3.8 -> 3.14 rebase. One obvious package I can remove from the packages manifest (which itself is consuming more and more space) is Firefox.
If I remove it from the packages manifest (only for LiveCD, it will obviously stay for the LiveGnome and LiveKDE DVD iso images), it's then back to 650 MB, so that would mean that one would still be able to burn it on a CD.
But the real question is then : does that even make sense ? for each release, we're now fighting with disk space constraints, and I'm each time removing packages from that LiveCD image. If we remove Firefox itself, that would mean that such LiveCD would be useful just for people willing to "test" CentOS on their hardware, but that would be a basic Gnome desktop.
It builds/runs fine, can be installed too (like before), but I'd like your opinion about this.
Cheers,
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