[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

On 25 November 2015 at 13:48, Conley, Matthew M CTR GXM <
matthew.m.conley1.ctr at 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, 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, it is very used on small companies that
run commodity hardware (at least in my country happens), and CDs are still
a media option.


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> 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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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fabian Arrotin" <arrfab at centos.org>
> > To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at 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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