Since I added a lot more web cam support and other multimedia to the kernel, the resulting live iso is 706MB. Now, antiX-full will/must fit on a cd so we need to remove some apps.

Here are my suggestions. All will get the iso below 700MB. Please comment and suggest your own. (I will not add my thoughts at the moment)

1. Remove all Asian fonts
2. Remove all samba stuff
3. Remove pidgin
4. Remove imagination
5. Remove most icewm themes

Please comment.

Imo, 1,2,3,and some of 5
I have never used 4, so... that can go too __{{emoticon}}__ but I guess it could be useful for some?
Samba, and pyneighborhood is in metapackage-installer? so it should not be a big deal...

I never use most of the Fluxbox styles supplied in the full iso either. I usually go with one not in AntiX.
So maybe trim a few there also. Same for Pidgen as I prefer going with Jitsi.

I can live without all the extra icewm themes also. I don't use samba but other people might.
I don't use imagination either. Not sure about the Asian fonts thing. Being a Texican and all.

Otherwise. Good luck with the new iso Anti.

anticapitalista wrote:Since I added a lot more web cam support and other multimedia to the kernel, the resulting live iso is 706MB. Now, antiX-full will/must fit on a cd so we need to remove some apps.

Here are my suggestions. All will get the iso below 700MB. Please comment and suggest your own. (I will not add my thoughts at the moment)

1. Remove all Asian fonts
2. Remove all samba stuff
3. Remove pidgin
4. Remove imagination
5. Remove most icewm themes

Please comment.

My opinion: Eliminate Asian fonts, pidgin, imagination since I never use them. Also, since Libreoffice is in the metapackackage installer and seems to always be completely upgraded each time you do a fresh install don't include it on the CD. Go back to using abiword on live. Maybe even put an icon on the desktop to install libreoffice.

i would say remove asian fonts, and make a post to vote for the top 3 themes for each window manager. then put the ones that are outside of the top 3 in a deb in the repo. remove pidgin is fine. I have not used imagination so i cannot comment on that.
However please leave samba included, i use antix as a system recovery live cd. I require samba to connect to the system servers to extact client data to and pull data from for the various clients. If it is absolutely neccesary then ok, I can always remaster to add it for my own use.

edit:
perhaps the wallpaper acan be narrowed down in a similar fashion as the window manager themes. Also setting the system to use a single common icon set. Gtk themes could possible be narrowed down to.

maybe stick with a system styling of 1 good light theme, one good dark theme, and on good theme in between the two

Dave wrote:
However please leave samba included, i use antix as a system recovery live cd. I require samba to connect to the system servers to extact client data to and pull data from for the various clients. If it is absolutely neccesary then ok, I can always remaster to add it for my own use.

I agree leave samba in. Anyone who wants to print in a workgroup is going to need it and smbclient and I use smbnetfs to mount my workgroup network shares.

I would be OK with any change except samba. samba really needs to stay in. I like libreoffice being included, but I would be ok with going back to abiword and gnumeric if necessary. definitely ok with losing pidgin and imagination. they are in the repos if someone wants them.

I would be for 1 - 5.
Predecessor for samba,
and then instead of abiword, gnumeric < libreoffice.

CD is good!

Personally I really like the idea of a lightweight install CD with the minimum required stuff. If anything installed from CD is outdated, then we have to download it again to get the newest version. So it's better to use a minimalistic CD similar to Debian netinst and download additional metapackages only once. That's why I have used AntiX-base.iso.
Libreoffice almost always have a newer version compaired to the install CD, it uses a lot of disk space & IIRC gnumeric can open files from libreoffice calc, so I agree to exclude it. I have an .odf sheet with passwords and system settings, but gnumeric is enough to read it.
I'm using pidgin and Samba from the 1-5 list above, but I don't need pidgin on the live CD.
So let's exclude 1,3,4,5 plus replace Libreoffice.

Hmm, a semi-netinstall-ish version would be useful?
Maybe base, with an"upgrade to full" function of some kind?
Without the office, and ??? stuff.
I like that idea.

I agree with the suggestion to include abiword and omit Libre Office

In addition to removing the asian fonts, applying localepurge to remove locale-specific manpages/docs
will free up quite a lot of space.

1 & 5, with a +1 to possibly leave out LibreOffice in favour of gnumeric and abiword. I believe this would have the biggest impact on available space.

I too use samba every time I boot the live-CD/USB and of all items in the list, it ranks highest in terms of keeping it, the others can be easily installed if ever required.

Well, I am going to plead for keeping Asian fonts and leaving the rest out.

thanks.

Hello,
From my point of view, I would suggest to keep the IceWM themes that are very nice and funny (like the Windows XP).
It's so nice to impress a newbie, that show how Antix is well finished.

The other programs like pidgin or imagination can be easily installed if needed.

P.S: yes, I know, I'll present myself, but just later, been French it's not easy to write in English...

Well, I am going to plead for keeping Asian fonts and leaving the rest out

With respect for plvera's level of participation (850+ posts) I guess the asian fonts should remain.

I'm booting from USB pen, so"fits on a CD" is a non-issue for me.
Maybe a user poll, asking"do you still care about being able to boot from CD?" is warranted.