well... somebody said, that it can't be devided....
But - FC1 have a lot of development tools right on the CD, which I believe is wrong.
My suggestion - is have have product division like in Microsoft - or
Lindows.com
They have -
1) OS (kernel, GUI, all the basic things, basic text and image editors) - this everyone
needs
2) Office (OpenOffice can be separated, but because it's small enough - it won't
be good)
MS Office and Lindows Office is separated - because about HALF of the home users
doesn't use Office at all...
3) MS Visual Studio for Developers (And this part in FC1 take a LOT of space...) - This
must include KDevelop, other IDEs, some source code, tutorials, compilers, programming
documentation, ...
Lindows doesn't have an analogue for that (as I know)
4) Plus+! (multimedia enchacements, and eye-candy's for their OSes - something FC1
lacks totally with few exceptions, like the Marble Desktop Theme in KDE, and a few
plug-ins for XMMS)
In Windows XP the Plus! gives me: many desktop backgrounds, MP3 to WMA audio converter,
Windows Media Player skins, and visualizations, 3 games (2 of which are 3D), 8 beautyful
Direct3D screensavers, and 4 Desktop themes.
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I would be VERY happy if such Plus! project would exist for FC Linux as well... - because
it will REALLY enchance FC Linux in home user's eyes...
Really slick OpenGL Open-Source screen-savers can be put there:
http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/mirrors.php
the Marble KDE Desktop theme to be moved there, some 3D games like TuxRacer should move
from the OS to FC Plus!, and maybe well also add a few ogg-vorbis compression utilities
that way. Actually a lot of multimedia stuff can migrate to FC Plus!, AND many new stuuf
must be added. Note: that it sometimes better to leave a lot of space free on the Plus CD,
than put low-quality stuff there.
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So that way the OS will take only 2 CDs, and the developers will only need the FC and
FedoraDevbeloper CDs, while home user will need only FC, and FedoraPlus! CDs. This style
is very benefical.
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