Re: [orca-list] sonar 2015.4 has been released

[Kelly Prescott <kprescott coolip net>]

I replied to you directly and hopefully it can help you.
kp


On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, B. Henry wrote:

> This is rather OT, but if I don't post here and now I am likely to forget to address tis on IRC or somewhere 
> else.
> Talking-Arch is already at the limit of what fits on a CD, and I guess some people can't get the current 
> image to burn on to a CD as is. The person(s)
> in question may be doing something wrong as the image appears to be just barely under max size for said 
> optical media. I almost never use CDs
> myself/don't have any blank ones lying around and so have not had a chance to chek on what the person or 
> persons in question may be doing wrong, but a
> few more megs would almost certainly push the image size past CD limit.
> I am not sure why arch isos have ballooned  as much as they have over the last couple of years, but if I'm 
> remembering what I've read TA doesn't have
> anything beyond what is needed for speakup to talk with espeak and some basic braille support that is not on 
> the standard arch image.
> I'm not a sonar user, but the reason for a CLI spin would be to make installation easier for the less 
> experienced users. I can certainly make the case
> that those users shold not be using arch in the first place unless they have someone around to provide tech 
> supppport, e.g. a sys-admin, at least folks
> who are not prepared to learn to swim by being thrown in to relatively deep water...lol
> I've probbly already said too much, not trying to start a discussion here that should be handled somewhere 
> else. I'll only add that I did dload a
> sonar-cli image once and it did not boot for me after being dd'ed on to a usb stick, so if this is the norm 
> then obviously these images are not ready
> for primetime.
> Cheers/good luck with the mate spin.