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.
=======================================================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.
=========================================================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.
, but the only reason that MS has divided
their products is in order to make more $$$ people want seperate media/docs
when they buy several products.
I'm quite happy with the way FC1 (and all of the Red Hat distros for that
matter) is today... You can't say that installation makes it more difficult
for end users, because the develompent stuff is left out of the installation
by default.
The only point, as I see it, is the matter of media, which IMHO should be
solved by providing a DVD .iso file in addition to the CD .isos... One disc
for everything!!!
Thomas