Hi *, Only to get the discussion started again I would like to inject my opinions about the CDs into this list. 1. Which Debian version? ------------------------ Basically we have to chose from the dists on our mirrors what to put on the CDs, so we have stable, testing or unstable. Frozen is not available yet and unstable is unsuited for obvious reasons. That leaves us with potato or woody. As far as I know we will also have the remaining discs from the CHIP Special on Debian (which I mastered) - Joey, am I up to date here? Those discs carry potato + the 2.4 kernel updates and a 2.2.19pre9 kernel (+ updated Adaptec driver) on it. As I see it this would be more suited to beginners - a magazine describing the installation and use of Debian together with a rock solid release of our distribution. Now I expect there will be a lot of technicians and Linux experts there as well who will want to have something more up to date to play with. I think we should have at least woody available to show it to them. Another important point is: We are going to freeze woody at some time. This is the first time we are doing a full release from package pools. There will be a lot of problems and we will probably run into most of them when we are doing woody images now. So we might be able to contribute a lot to the upcoming Debian 2.3 release. All things considered I would vote for putting woody on the discs. 2. How about a live file system? -------------------------------- Basically this would be a nice feature to have on the discs. OTOH I can't estimate how much work is needed for this. So I would like to defer this question - let's create something we can install from. If we have time and motivation left let's try to get this as a bonus. 3. What packages to put on the CDs? ----------------------------------- This is a quite interesting and time consuming question. It's hard to decide what to put on two CDs (I learned this when building the CHIP special). It's probably even harder to decide what to put on one CD. I think we should collect the killer applications that people associate with Linux and try to press those on the CD. The bare minimum would be: 1. KDE 2. Gnome?? If we have KDE on it people will expect us to ship Gnome as well just to be fair :( 3. Apache, MySQL, PHP4 (3?) 4. ... As you can see that's already a lot of stuff to put on the cd. Perhaps we should discuss what installation type we are going to support first. Should we target mostly client installations or full fledged server systems? 4. How to build the CDs? ------------------------ If we are building woody cds, we should use the same tools as we will use later when creating the release images. So we will have to go with debian-cd and extend it for our needs. From what Roland wrote it seems he wants to create the directory tree of the cd and do it all manually. I think we should make the whole beast scriptable so that whenever somebody needs to build custom cds he can base it on our work. Okay, it's 3am now and I want to go to bed. More to come tomorrow. I am waiting for comments. cu Torsten
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