Re: [Dragora-users] Features useful for a better promotion of Dragora

[Matias Fonzo]

El 2020-02-05 19:23, Tiberiu escribió:
> bump :-)
>
> On 21.12.2019 17:50, Tiberiu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the right list for what I'm asking. If not, I
> > apologize in advance and I'd be happy to move the thread on another
> > mailing list or another communication channel entirely.
> >
> > I'd like Technoethical to promote more Dragora, especially since the
> > beta release of the new version is out. Congratulations, by the way!
> >
> > To that end, Matías and I have identified these features as useful to
> > have in Dragora. The ordering is my own:
> >
> > 1. Live ISO to work with a multiboot GRUB setup for a USB flash drive
> > (like Trisquel [1] and other distributions)

This is something that was on my agenda to try to reproduce the problem, 
to identify it.  I have yet to find the time.

> > 2. ISO with source archives for all the software packages in Dragora 
> > (or
> > at least for all the ones pre-installed on the Live ISO)

Yes, the idea is to distribute all the sources (separately) as it was 
done in all the stable versions of Dragora.

> > 3. ath9k and ath9k_htc drivers (along with the
> > "open-ath9k-htc-firmware") pre-installed, working out of the box for
> > freedom-respecting WiFi mPCIe cards and USB sticks

We need the links to those sources, where to get it...

> > (4. Nice to have: desktop environment such as Trinity pre-installed in
> > the Live ISO)

This is something I have already begun to do and incorporate.  I'm 
currently as a contributor to the Trinity project adding the support for 
Musl and complementing the support for LibreSSL.  Some of the changes 
have already been added[1] (not to mention that I was helping with the 
Spanish translations of the project some time ago).

[1] http://www.trinitydesktop.org/patches

> > I was wondering if we can help Matías with investigating or 
> > documenting
> > how to implement any of the features above.

Thank you for asking.  Unfortunately, it's not up to me.  Sometimes I 
wish I had done a smaller project, finished it and thus had more 
satisfaction, but I understand that this is a larger project that 
perhaps has more breadth than a small one.  Any help is welcome.

> > Thanks,
> > Tiberiu
> >
> > [1]
> >
> > menuentry "Try Trisquel without installing" {
> >         iso_path="trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso"
> >         bootoptions="iso-scan/filename=$iso_path boot=casper splash
> > quiet noprompt --"
> >         linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz $bootoptions
> >         initrd (loop)/casper/initrd
> > }