On 25 noiembrie 2015 23:38:32 EET, Erick Ocrospoma zipper1790@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 November 2015 at 13:48, Conley, Matthew M CTR GXM < matthew.m.conley1.ctr@navy.mil> wrote:
Ironically, I work in an environment, where a usb stick is forbidden,
but
that said, I usually try to use the liveDVD's. I only have one system
that
has only a cd drive (no dvd), but the older releases support it just
fine.
So that's cool.
Idem.
I've seen and worked in places where pendrives (or any removable media) are forbidden,
'Any removable' does not apply to CDs as well ?!!
due to some policy on their datacenters.
Personally I prefer DVD iso, but let's take in count that CentOS is a nice and solid alternative for production servers,
... on which one would not use a desktop-like but almost minimal distro as the liveCD would be...
it is very used on small companies that run commodity hardware (at least in my country happens),
I am with you on this one... but do these really need to boot in a Gnome environment from a live image which is barely more than a minimal desktop and has no browser ? As one of the regulars who provide help in #centos I am pretty sure we'd see frustrated users who do not read the docs/release notes and would lose their and our time with questions related to "where is the browser?"
and CDs are still a media option.
Once again: for a live image which would be barely more than a minimal Gnome desktop , without a browser ? Remember that for installation purposes there are at least two SMALLER alternatives, the minimal and the network isos.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nux! Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 1:26 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey
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,
Fabian Arrotin