I understand, and agree with many of the things that you said. I did not say at any time that the increase of size of the .iso was something bad - my intention was only to say that think a rise is necessarily an improvement is an error. Maybe win 5MB in 6 years is not really a bad thing, but I, unlike you, not yet ready to say yes or no because have thought enough about it. If we follow the market trends and thinking, obviously this is very little; but in my reality, living inside a poor city in Brazil, using dial-up internet (today, luckily, I am wonderful 44 Kbps) with computers sometimes really obsolete, 5MB make a negative difference. Perhaps this difference worth, but haven't used the distro enough to know. So in the previous e-mail prefered talking about change, not of evolution - because evolution is something relative, and depends on several things. For me, the free software is part of a larger worldview that included, among other things,
the appreciation for simplicity and efficiency. The question that motivated me to write the previous e-mail is more practical than theoretical, as well as what motivates me to answer you right now – maybe, then, the SliTaz community should devote a bit more attention to discuss "philosophy who made slitaz what it is today", so that we can understand better what would be evolution within the project and what would change. Just like to point out that I am not saying that there is or is not evolution, am just questioning this and sharing this questioning. Thank you for attention, and sorry for my bad english
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Em 03/03/2012 15:35, Christophe Lincoln < pankso@xxxxxxxxxx > escreveu: On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:42:57 -0300 Marcus César wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> Rohit, I disagree with you. I think one of the fundamental ideas of > SliTaz is precisely to provide a up to 30MB .ISO; I agree that it is > not the size of the .ISO that makes a large or small distro. If for > whatever reason the SliTaz .ISO go on to have more than 30 MB, the > project will have failed (or abandoned) with one of its fundamental > ideas. I use the SliTaz since 1.0, I was the one who started the > translation project for PT-BR, use the distro both for domestic and > for work and yes, I was sad when I downloaded the .ISO and saw that > it was with more than 30 MB-thought it might be just in cooking, and > frankly I'm still counting on that. Things may change, of course-but &
gt; we also have to understand when and why we abandon an idea that was > already (and, according to the website of SliTaz, still is) > fundamental.
We must also think to the future and dont stay stuck on some principe that are no longer relevent. Old hardware today is not the same than 6 years ago, my laptop was new 6 years ago now it's old... I'mean we are still one of the most lighweight and modern OS in the world at 35MB. I guess 6 years to get +5Mb is not a problem and dont forget we have realy cool new stuff in SliTaz and the russian dolls version let us install a full desktop with 48Mb of RAM, so we still targetting old machine. But no warries, we not going to grown to much, yesterday I changed 30 to 35 on the website and I guess it will be for the next years.
You know some distro died because they was fixed and not flexible like us, we must for sure keep the philosophy who made sl
itaz what it is today but we must think of evolution :-)