Re: making the i386 livecd fit

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 00:36 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 1. What kind of compression fedora uses? Any? None? I know that
> Knoppix makes a big deal how they put a l lot more stuff on CD by
> doing strong compression.

We use squashfs which gives us pretty comparable compression to knoppix.

> 3. of removing selinux is out of question rename current spin to
> "Basic Desktop spin" and create a "Full desktop spin" with Ooo and
> much more other apps and make it a DVD spin, or maybe, maybe 2 CD
> spin.

This then means another image to build, test, host, mirror, ... across n
architectures.

Not to mention increased user confusion as to which is the "best" for
them to download.

Jeremy