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. > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto: > centos-devel-bounces at 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 > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 > > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | > > twitter: @arrfab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAlZVyOMACgkQnVkHo1a+xU4w4ACdEZZJbJwEXaq1BrsorEW9YZSR > > EcYAn3BwnoHgwRV97f0yAKaGspvaux+u > > =OXeJ > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-devel mailing list > > CentOS-devel at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- ~ Happy install ! Erick. --- IRC : zerick Blog : http://zerick.me About : http://about.me/zerick Linux User ID : 549567 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20151125/cd10ef18/attachment-0008.html>