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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo submission guideline update proposal
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Jean-Michel POURE |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo submission guideline update proposal |
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:12:01 +0200 |
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> I'm not sure I'll be able to follow those guides. Most of the OSes I'll be
> installing are for teaching purposes, so graphical logins and so on could
> not be the best choice. That's why I'm even trying to keep the image size
> low.
This is free software, do as you wish, these are only guidelines.
You are free to follow them or not. In understand there are two distinct
issues: disc space, graphical login vs. text login:
- Disc space needs more discussion. Ronald outlines in a recent email that
FAT16/32 may be limited to 4 Gb. It means that we will need to publish again
the 4.3 Gb images like the SuSE. Also, we propably need COW images.
But when installing Fedora Core 2, I had the feeling that COW was slower than
RAW. Maybe I am wrong and it was a problem with timing. I have to test again.
Does anyone know what is the faster image system, COW or RAW ?
- About graphical login, we can propose distinct download sections.
What do you think?
> The main task of Renzo's idea was preparing something that could be used
> into a laboratory, and that's what I started to do. Of course, the project
> has expanded and so larger images are ok, but a lab could "explode" when
> things start to be so big...
My personal opinion would be to clear the first 10 items of the to-do-list
quickly, then work on a modern GUI and deliver a large number of guest
systems.
The to-do-list can be found on the homepage:
http://www.freeoszoo.org
From 1 July to 8 July, the FTP figures were:
---- Percent Of ----
Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ------------- ---------- ----------
/home/ftp/images 1904 86343862323 74.20 89.97
/home/ftp 80 9133409529 3.12 9.52
/home/ftp/qemu 582 494336622 22.68 0.52
On a monthy basis, we will probably reach 10.000 guest systems delivered. In
the short run, we may need peer-to-peer technologies, like Bittorrent, which
is already used by RedHat and Mandrake to ship their distros.
My dream would be to deliver one million guest systems on a yearly basis. This
can only be done if a multi-platform GUI is available. If not, the figures
will probably be closer to 100.000 guest systems.
Kind regards,
Jean-Michel