F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Tue May 18 21:14:26 UTC 2010


On 05/19/2010 02:28 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 18 May 2010 21:46, Jesse Palser <slnthero at aol.com> wrote:
>   
>> That makes me sad, OpenOffice should be on LiveCD...
>>     
> The openoffice-core RPM is 238 MB (which is compressed... and not the
> only necessary component...)
>
> The LiveCD is 700MB
>
> I'm sure I am not alone in anxiously awaiting your insight into which
> 1/3 of the packages you think should be dropped from the LiveCD in
> order to provide OpenOffice...
>   

Live CD is actually a compressed squashfs image that wraps a Ext4
image.  So while Openoffice.org is big, it isn't quite 1/3rd of the
whole size.

Rahul



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