From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 16 20:04:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14A01065695 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [83.235.67.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BF98FC08 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from atomic.dyndns.org (athedsl-4488437.home.otenet.gr [94.71.72.253]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n5GK4k0t008110; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:04:47 +0300 Message-ID: <4A37FADE.4090200@otenet.gr> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:04:46 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090414) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Whitehouse References: <4A37380F.8020505@gmail.com> <4A37F503.7070207@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4A37F503.7070207@onetel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:51 -0000 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a continuation of the effort that started with this post: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198284.html > > This little project also found its way to Distrowatch Weekly news > (Thanks!): > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090615#news > > > Congratulations! > Thanks! > Since there was an update of the base system to 7.2-RELEASE-p1 a few > days ago, it was a good chance to update this ISO and also include > some newer packages. > > The new ISO may be downloaded from here (space and bandwidth courtesy > of Glen Barber): > > http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso > > > Are you updating the name with each new iso? I've included the -p1 in this release. I haven't come up with a naming scheme yet but will do when I decide the intervals between releases. > > I will start preparing a server ISO (CD sized) soon. I also welcome > all ideas on what to include/exclude in later versions of this DVD. > It has been suggested to include openoffice packages as abiword / > gnumeric don't cut it for many people. This will increase the size of > the download, although hopefully not dramatically as most dependencies > are probably already included. I am all open to ideas, so please email > me your suggestions and comments. > > > I would vote for including openoffice, it takes much longer to > compile than to download, or maybe make the package and any > dependencies that are not already included available as a separate > tarball. The tarball idea is good and probably most dependencies are already in the iso, so it won't be huge. I'll investigate this, thanks! > > > Any chance of x11-wm/icewm and maybe x11/idesk? icewm with config option > > BEASTIE :) > Probably create a "small WM collection CD" with the likes of wmaker, afterstep, icewm, blackbox etc. Need to find the more popular ones. > > I've been between hardware for a while but I can offer some compile > time if needed. > > > Chris Compiling is not a problem, I've got a separate system for it. But can only do i386 releases - don't have suitable 64bit hardware. If you do, mail me and we can arrange something.