Re: Road to 3.0, core ISO size and UTF-8

[Guillaume MICHON <guillaume.michon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. SliTaz must remain usable with 256 MB of RAM. And if a choice
is needed, Abiword is more suitable than MPlayer.

Claudinei Pereira a écrit :
> I agree with Jesse. 35mb for an iso LiveCD image is ok IF it fits on
> machines with 256 mb of ram. And between abiword or mplayer, i think
> abiword is more suitable for a liveCD
> 
> 2009/5/22 Jesse Lehman <jesseblehman@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I am okay with a 35 MB core image, but SliTaz must remain usable as a
>> live CD booted into RAM on machines with 256 MB of RAM.
>> jesse
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Christophe Lincoln <pankso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hug to all,
>>>
>>> SliTaz 3.0 Roadmap is mostly wrote but a few things must be discuss:
>>> the core ISO size and UTF-8 by default.
>>>
>>> Using UTF-8 by default will alow use to use gettext and PO files to
>>> translate all SliTaz apps and boxes. Using standard PO files will make
>>> translation easier for all languages and actually some languages such
>>> has Russian work only with UTF-8.
>>>
>>> But using UTF-8 with the current selection of the core packages,
>>> produce an ISO image bigger than 30 MB (~31,2 Mb). That said I think is
>>> not a problem, I think we should keep the core under 35 Mb so it boot
>>> with 256 Mb and include Abiword or MPlayer, more i18n and hardware
>>> support.
>>>
>>> Historicaly I fixed at first an ISO size at 20 Mb to boot with
>>> 128 MB, with 2.0 the minimal RAM to load the core is 160 MB and we
>>> provide official flavors or web boot to use SliTaz with less memory. So
>>> the goal is always reached: provide a full featured, fast, light
>>> and compact OS for modern harware but also usable on older machines.
>>>
>>> Ok to have the core under 35 Mb ? Suggestions, commnents ?
>>>
>>> Please give a look to the Roadmap for 3.0 if you have time, all
>>> comments and suggestions are welcome, checking typo is also more than
>>> welcome. I will finish it when the ISO size thing is fixed:
>>>
>>> http://labs.slitaz.org/projects/roadmap/distro
>>>
>>> On a personnal side and would like to support translations teams as much
>>> has possible. Paul, Claudinei, Sevala, Draplater and others are doing
>>> an incredible work. If we give the core a few Mb we could realy improve
>>> languages support and SliTaz.
>>>
>>> - Christophe
>>>
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