From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Towards a graphical installer?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 17:17:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be8e28f0-8c8d-b305-3061-642c2a875945@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k11iwqim.fsf@gnu.org>
On 11/05/2020 15:27, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO
> image starting a desktop-environment by default. The attached patch
> modifies the installation image so that it starts a GNOME session. The
> installer is then automatically started, inside a gnome-terminal.
>
> The resulting ISO image is bigger: 3.9G without compression and 1.7G
> with compression.
Nice initiative! Maybe it would be an idea to use XFCE instead of GNOME
as it's tend to be a little smaller. And maybe more stable as they don't
have that many releases...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-11 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-11 13:27 Towards a graphical installer? Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-11 15:17 ` Jonathan Brielmaier [this message]
2020-05-11 16:01 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-05-13 7:11 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-11 16:29 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-05-12 2:58 ` raingloom
2020-05-12 3:49 ` John Soo
2020-05-13 7:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-13 9:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-05-24 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-11 19:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-11 20:03 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-11 22:27 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-12 7:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-12 15:33 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-13 5:44 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-13 7:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-12 6:10 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-12 6:13 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-12 20:53 ` hamzeh
2020-05-14 8:08 ` Christopher Baines
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