[debian-knoppix] Software recommendations for LinuxTag DVD edition?
Hello everyone,
The (probably) last version of Knoppix before LinuxTag 2003
has just been released: 2003-06-06 (changelog at
http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/KNOPPIX-CHANGELOG.txt).
We are currently planning a DVD edition of Knoppix for LinuxTag 2003
(http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html).
For this, I would like to know which software you would like to see
on a "full featured" version. Uncompressed space available is about
6 GB (currently in use: 2.7 GB), so the compressed image will roughly
need 2.2 GB of space on a 4.7 GB medium, if not too much data is
already in compressed format.
The remaining of the DVD space will be used for the free conference
papers, sponsor and multimedia stuff.
Kill criteria for recommendations:
- Only free software (GPL, LGPL, BSD and alike)
- no software that requires license fees or has known patent issues
for any components
- for games and such: must be suitable for children
- software must not use too much space on the writable
RAM areas or /etc, and run without problems from a read-only partition
- must not require daemons to be started prior to application, except if
this is done via a wrapper script that has a menu entry
- Must be available as Debian binary AND source package on a public
Debian repository
- Must be "stable enough" for production use
- Should be useful for a broad audience.
Deadline for recommendations, submissions and tests is 15.6.2003, since
the production needs about 3 weeks before LinuxTag.
Please recommend ONLY software that you have thoroughly tested by
yourself, and found useful.
Probably, we can integrate most of the programs that are currently
available in Knoppix-related projects like Freeduc and Quantian, as
long as they meet the above criteria.
Hopefully Fabian Franz' new Knoppix installer will make it into the
DVD edition, too.
This DVD edition will be a one-time project and only be available
within the LinuxTag 2003 Kit (fee is used for funding the Free
Project booths on the exhibition), and not for download (maybe with
exceptions for betatesters with high bandwidth). Followup editions
of Knoppix after LinuxTag will still be standard 700MB CD images
(until virtually everyone can afford a DVD-writer and CD-Rom drives
have vanished completely).
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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