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- Subject: Re: Road to 3.0, core ISO size and UTF-8
- From: Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:16:34 +0000
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Hi,
+1 for 35Mb for enhanced hardware support. Good out of box hardware
support is really important.
I am neutral to both abiword and mplayer. So, anything is fine. Just
to clarify a misconception, mplayer or mplayer-svn, though small in
sizes, are not a stripped version. They can play anything that vlc can
play. Mplayer-team is making a good effort to support most things out
of box. And mplayer-codecs (23Mb) is no more needed for most of user's
need. Only useful codec missing in mplayer is Realplayer 10 and 11
(25kb in size), it is planned to be officially included in mplayer
soon.
About the RAM scalability problem: I am currently working on this
issue so that, in future, even if any flavor has higher iso size, the
RAM requirement will not increase by a large factor. More details
here: http://labs.slitaz.org/issues/show/115
Rohit
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jesse Lehman <jesseblehman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some good thoughts. I concur.
> jesse
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Sergey Sinitsa <sin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wrote original article about gettext in bash scripts (boxes) for
>> SliTaz and very glad my work will find its place in SliTaz roadmap.
>>
>> Gettext is vital for making complete uptodate localizations upstream.
>> In fact, UTF-8 is not as important as gettext. For example, there are
>> Windows-1251 and koi8-r single byte Russian encodings. I simply do not
>> succeeded with them and gettext in SliTaz from first try, I'm sure it
>> works somehow.
>>
>> But I do prefer UTF-8 because it makes a lot of things easier.
>>
>> As for ISO size, I think adding ripped version of Abiword and Mplayer is a step
>> backward. Any word processor or a player in SliTaz would never be
>> complete because they need plugins, spelling dictionaries, codecs,
>> hardware accelerated video drivers etc to work comfortably. It is also
>> a cut of choice, for example I prefer Xine and VLC + Google Docs /
>> OpenOffice.
>>
>> Can we do network oriented, fully localized, UTF-8 based distro
>> without both Abiword and Mplayer which still fits to 128Mb? It would
>> be in the spirit of original SliTaz.
>>
>> My vision of ideal SliTaz is <= 128RAM <=26Mb + gettext + UTF-8. No
>> AbiWord, Mplayer etc.
>>
>> Iso size is also important for network boot time.
>>
>> Making two official flavours -- normal 128RAM and large 256RAM with
>> AbiWord and Mplayer may be good option.
>>
>> Sergey Sinitsa
>>
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