[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 014 snapshot 20071122

[Daniele Maccari]

I completely agree with you indeed. What I meant was that there could be 
more than a versione of gobo: the cd, the net_install, the 
AllYouCouldEverNeedIsHere and so on :D

The problem is, as noted before, the lack of human resources to dedicate 
to these "side" projects.

Nathan Middleton wrote:
> Personally I don't have a DVD burner, it'd be a shame to see Gobo
> start requiring one.  What's probably a better option is a focus on
> getting a network-enabled live cd that can then use the online package
> and compile database to update the installation.
>
> This is just my personal, unhumble and uninformed opinion :)  It's one
> of the features I love about doing netboot with Debian and SUSE
> though.
>
>
> On 11/23/07, gobo users <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think the focus is now on the 014 release. A DVD will mean more effort by
>> same people, then a (probably) worse release.
>> I like the idea anyway. It could be a good choice to put in all that
>> softwares/drivers which is indeed important (I'm thinking at wireless stuff,
>> for example), but couldn't fit in one CD, due to some reason.
>> There would obviously be the need to polish things such that all work
>> together almost flawlessy, but with a bugtracker team like we are, it's
>> going to be as easy as a pie :D
>>
>> 2007/11/23, Fábio Mierlo < geromao at gmail.com>:
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>>> So, why not release a dvd, after the release of 014, with lot of packages?
>>>
>>> On Nov 22, 2007 10:34 PM,  <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 11/22/07, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hisham Muhammad wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And here's another snapshot. Sorry about the long delay on this one;
>>>>>> it was caused by some nasty bugs and our general unavailability in
>>>>>>             
>> the
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>>>>>> last few weeks. Still, the feedback we had during this period was
>>>>>>             
>> very
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>>>>>> good and I feel we are converging towards the release.
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>>>>> Well done. Just a question: why not to include the I18n_it also? It's
>>>>> just a curiosity, nothing more, nothing less.
>>>>> I know there are not so many italians here (in fact two afaik), but it
>>>>> would be really appreciated, I think. Just my two pence, of course.
>>>>>           
>>>> The KDE language packs included are for the languages for which we
>>>> have translations in the live CD environment (the initial live CD
>>>> screens and the Installer), currently Brazilian Portuguese, German and
>>>> Hungarian.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/tools/LiveCD/Data/Language/?root=goboscripts
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>> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/tools/Installer/Shared/Installer/Language/?root=goboscripts
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>>>> Contributions are always welcome. However, the KDE translation files
>>>> are taking considerable space in the Live CD (the German pack is
>>>> ~21MB)... we did set a precedent when we included KDE-I18N-pt_BR in
>>>> 010 (which was released in a Brazilian magazine), but to keep on
>>>> adding them would fill up the Live CD.
>>>>
>>>> One thought I have in mind is to master instead different versions of
>>>> the Live CD for those supported languages. We could then add some
>>>> extra goodies like the localized versions of OpenOffice, Firefox and
>>>> spellchecker dictionaries. But this is extra work and we're already
>>>> short on resources. Whether we could pull it off for 014 or not
>>>> probably depends on the availability of volunteers to pack and test
>>>> these language-specific packages. But it's something to think about,
>>>> so I thought I'd share the idea.
>>>>
>>>> -- Hisham
>>>>
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