[gobolinux-users] The idea of "base" and "full" iso downolad

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 1/16/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Gobo devs!
>
> For what I can see now - there is only one type of Gobo iso we can download
> - a complete solution with many packages (about 700 MB).
> What do you think about the idea of having two different images available
> for download - "full" (like the one now) and "base" (or "core", "mini")
> containing only the tools of utmost necessity to run the system - with the
> size of such iso greatly reduced. I've seen this in Arch Linux and this
> solution seems to be pretty convenient for many different reasons.
> Besides, from what I know it may somehow improve the speed and effectiveness
> of overall distro development and relevant bugfixing.
>
> What do you think?

The idea is good, of course. The problem is that the developer base is
very small, and doing ISO releases is very time consuming. In fact,
shipping two different versions of the distribution will add more
overhead and take away the focus on development of
tools/infrastructure and general bug fixings.

You're all invited to join in the development of the distribution and
try to prove me wrong, of course :-)

-- 
Lucas
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