Arch live CD with gnome

generic_ · 2009-01-25 19:59:43

Well charka looks interesting but to be honest KDE make me seriously reconsider pros/cons of living vs Dieing. I don't know why but I just cant stand it using it as my main DE. So its there a similar project with gnome? Also charka seems a little bloated , I was thinking of one with Arch + KDE and thats it. But whatever.

EDIT: Sorry I was talking about an Arch live cd with gnome charka is an arch based distro with a kde desktop. I was talking about a arch based distro with a gnome desktop.

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fwojciec · 2009-01-25 20:05:11

pacman -S gnome

godane · 2009-01-25 22:40:53

you can always try archiso-live. It has gnome,kde4,e17,lxde, and fluxbox for you to boot into.

Heller_Barde · 2009-01-25 23:10:30

generic_ wrote:

Well charka looks interesting but to be honest KDE make me seriously reconsider pros/cons of living vs Dieing. I don't know why but I just cant stand it using it as my main DE. So its there a similar project with gnome? Also charka seems a little bloated , I was thinking of one with Arch + KDE and thats it. But whatever.
EDIT: Sorry I was talking about an Arch live cd with gnome charka is an arch based distro with a kde desktop. I was talking about a arch based distro with a gnome desktop.

how is chakra NOT simply arch+KDE??

cheers Barde

sandsmark · 2009-01-25 23:29:59

This «Charka» intrigues me, where did you find out about it?

Also, detailed memory analysis¹ at our Chakra World Domination Headquarters have shown that a comparable Gnome setup can consume several magnitudes more memory and bloat, while featuring only an infitesimal amount of the features, of a Kde Desktop Environment.

I am currently unaware of any efforts to squeeze a gnome onto a CD-platter, but I'm sure you could do it on a couple of DVD's and some effort. Writing a usable installer using GTK is a whole other story (good luck finding good and up to date tutorials and documentation!).

¹: For a discussion of a methodology, please see: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/analysis.html

(DISCLAIMER: No, I haven't done any real testing, and noone has done any lately that I know of (but KDE won last round), but my personal experiences confirm it. If anyone seriously want to make a Charka, featuring Gnome and Arch and a pretty installer, get in touch, as our installation backend should be easily shared between installers, no matter what desktop or toolkit you write it for/use. I'm serious about the lack of good documentation for GTK, though.)

Caliburn · 2009-01-26 01:57:45

fwojciec wrote:

pacman -S gnome

.. couldn't agree more here, +1.

lilsirecho · 2009-01-26 02:44:59

Check out Faunos which has kde but you can change to whatever you wish...live usb flash 1GB, archlinux package management.

generic_ · 2009-01-26 16:51:28

Thanks but how big should a gnome + arch live cd be?

pjjanak · 2009-01-26 17:29:10

Not too big. Think of the Ubuntu live CDs. They fit on one CD and have Gnome + an installer. It's certainly do-able.

Peter

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Arch live CD with gnome

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