[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:40:23AM +0000, Julio Martinez wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> Hello Fabian
> I have used a couple of times the Live CD to introduce CentOS to new
> users which allows them  test how it feels. Removing Firefox would
> be a big loss and do those "demos" would be impossible, well, in
> those cases probably we'd have to go to a DVD or USB image. But I
> see your point of view coming from a Developers background and it's
> probably where the CD is still mostly in use

Is there a decent browser you could include instead of Firefox that
is enough smaller to get below 700 MB? possibly Vivaldi ?

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