1.6.2-beta1 (i686) ISO Released

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Friday 03 of August 2007 18:28:53 Kok, Auke wrote:
> while I sympathise somewhat with this feeling, I'm not working towards the
> minimalist when I make ISO's. I haven't looked into adding some sort of
> package selection mechanism code for the ISO yet, so as the beta stands
> now, it installs all packages.

In my opinion the better way for new users is to provide easy way of lining 
destinations not particular modules. For example lin desktop-kde could 
install X, kde (with all required dependencies for both) and create 
initial/default config so user just type in startx or do reboot to have X 
desktop manager login screen after booting.

We could also think about:
-graphical on screen catalogue of moonbase for nice lining (using web browser 
to read descriptions, see links, app pictures etc.)
-localization profiles (such profile sets language, font, keyboard, variables, 
translations etc.)
-fixing uncompilable apps ( using /opt/compat dir or other for keeping old 
libs till some software will be updated)
-adding helpers: (hardware detection/configuration, default config generators, 
auto optimizator using /proc/cpuinfo data).
-build environment protection by storing in safe place binary versions of 
packages like binutils so such package like elfutils will not break it. I do 
not keep binaries for resurrection because it makes no sense for every 
module.

Another thing is on screen manual with easy text for newbies like:
To install kde desktop type in: lin desktop-kde or if you prefer gnome use 
desktop-gnome parameter; to ask other Lunar users about something run <app 
name> to go to irc channel. This would be enough for easy start.

> but don't worry, it's still just a single cd-rom ;)

I'm afraid of thinking there are dvd and blue ray available too and scientists 
are working on bigger media.

However I appreciate the work Auke is doing I like Lunar 'as is' and would 
like to see improvements to current Lunar idea than pushing it to Mandrake 
style distributions. Big downloads are also not nice for Lunar server/mirrors 
and people who have to download all these unneeded stuff (I always do lunar 
update/rebuild so all sources are downloaded later). Of course I'm not 
mentioning mc module which is a no, no, on ISO according to Auke.

Zbigniew