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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2016 02:28 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ..
I agree with Nio's assesment.

We should all try to be very clear with each other, it is often hard to
fully express ourselves via faceless text.  :)
> @ all other toriosadores, ToriOS needs input from more people in this
> discussion in order to find a solution that is good enough. Please
> tell us what *you* think :-) Best regards Nio 
Hey all,
I am willing to contribute financially as well, I currently do not have
much to add but I think between Nio and I we could split the yearly
cost, until we received more support or others chime in.

  I have been extremely busy recently, and have not had the time to do
much.  I have been working on rebasing for trusty, the main issue I face
there is the increased size of the dependencies.  Many things now
require things we do not use/want/need, such as NetworkManager.  This
requires a lot more dependencies (initial systemd stuff that was
introduced in 14.04)  It will take a while to get a decent sized CD out
of this, as OBI requires a tarball... perhaps we could offer a separate
solution where we have a CD image that requires a separate download of
the tarball... though I will continue to look through things and see
where I can cut corners (in size not quality of course).
The best I have gotten so far is around 800MiB  This is too much for a
CD, and does not include Seamonkey in any form (live or installed).  I
might be able to shirnk it more (removing things like synaptic? 
possibly using my battery monitor (very small gtk program) instead of
the XFCE power manager)
I still need to test things more but the space issue is the largest.  We
fixed nearly everything with OBI in our previous testing and have made
it much more robust.
I do wish there was a smaller network manager that did not require all
the gnome stuff, and worked as well (including native icon theme
support), but I haven't found one yet.

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Regards