Idea for alternative Calligra deployment option

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 10 April 2013 17:58, Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought about an idea like that for quite a long time but for a bit
> different usecase (and implemented it last Saturday (just a coincidence :)
> )).
>
> The Usecase
> Here in Moscow I have several friends, who are painters/architects. They do
> not have Linux and, generally, are not going to install it, but they wanted
> to try out Krita.

Dmitry,
Cool, that's also the use case I have in mind. Early adopters and
users that have to stay on the edge are in the same situation.

> Current Solution
> So I prepared a VirtualBox image with Linux Mint 14 for them. It has two
> pre-installed programs: Krita and an installation script written by David
> Revoy, which will help them to update Krita from git. The graphical tablet
> can be forwarded via USB directly to the virtual machine, so the pressure
> works fine.

Good to know!

> Here is the link to the image (4GiB):
> [WARNING] Be careful, the system language is set to Russian!
> http://yadi.sk/d/fRbbHVxQ3rvcw
>
> After importing to the VirtualBox it will unpack to 10GiB.

Thanks. I am thinking how far we can go to make extremely minimal
image. One that with or without Plasma Desktop and for best
integration -without local storage for documents (instead shared
folder would be used). May be possible even for server database
usecase of Kexi.

>
> Current Results
> I have no results so far since I published the image only last Saturday and
> my friends didn't have time to play with it yet :)

Oh so please share the feedback with us :)

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