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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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