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Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image
That 500MB does not include VMWare. You simply link to the VMWare player
download. My feeling this is irrelevant in the discussion.
My uncompressed VMWare image for Fedora5 is ~3GB. I am guessing compressed
you are looking at a 500MB download. I suspect you could do a stripped down
version of the distro without things like OO that might help in that dept.
If you want to pull in a broader audience this is a great way to go. You
don't have to do anything to your Windows system other than to install
VMWare Player and download the image. We have the opporunity here to setup
the image with everything in place from footprints, libraries, have the file
system all setup to allow novice users to be productive right out of the
box. No ./configure, no make, nothing.
Had this been available when I first started using gEDA it would have saved
me a lot of headaches.
>From: John Griessen <john@ecosensory.com>
>Reply-To: john@ecosensory.com,gEDA user mailing list
><geda-user@moria.seul.org>
>To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@moria.seul.org>
>Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image
>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:27:41 -0600
>
>Mike Hansen wrote:
>>
>>That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it?
>
>It takes a little work to get one of those set up. It's possible.
>Debian is easier to set up a distro with minimal anything beyond what gEDA
>needs. Fedora is already done. How much different would the VMware image
>be from Fedora to damnsmalllinux? The VMware binary still is a large chunk
>of that 500MB Fedora image I bet.
>
>John G
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