--- Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Since test1 and FUDcon there's been a lot of feedback on what
media
sets
we should actually build, test and distribute by default. It's
pretty
clear that the mix of "desktop bits without any development" didn't
really fit the needs of a lot of our users. And the incredibly long
thread about what belongs in a server spin showed that we don't
really
have a good handle on what use cases we're actually trying to fill
with
it.
Given this, the board stepped back to think a bit about what we're
trying to achieve and what the problems we were trying to fix. The
list
was pretty short:
1. Must provide a way for people to do their own custom versions
including packages from all of the Fedora universe.
Yes. And make it _really easy_.
2. Want to provide at least one installable "single CD
Fedora"
to
help in parts of the world with less bandwidth
3. Need to provide a way to install via media for the following
cases:
* Desktop environment
* Developer use
* Simple LAMP server
4. Try to be as little of a burden on our mirror and testing
infrastructure as possible.
Given the above, we'd like to look at doing a somewhat different set
of
bits for Fedora 7 than was previously in the plan. But, we're still
open to feedback to change things somewhat. The on the table things
are:
* Fedora 7 Desktop LiveCD. It's installable and it's a single
CD,
so it's a good step towards the single installable desktop CD
case.
* Fedora 7 DVD. With everything for desktop, development and
"mainstream" server tasks. This ends up replacing what was
previously Fedora Core. There's something of an open question
as
to whether we'd provide CD isos here or not. Or CD isos via
bittorrent only?
* Fedora 7 Everything. 2+ DVDs. More bits than you can shake a
stick at. Not available on the mirrors; bittorrent only.
Hopefully can share the first disc with the Fedora 7 DVD.
This
would be the most at-risk and the most likely to fall off due
to
time pressure.
How about some forward thinking- 1 hd-dvd/bluray iso. To anyone who
complains about not having said hardware, tell them how easy it is to
launch this live-iso in qemu, and then run the simple commandline/gui
to generate any standard spin (or any arbitrary customization of any
standard spin). Again, reiterating above ... make it _really easy to
do this_.
Also, make it trivial to copy this iso to a usb harddisk, along with a
simple way to boot from the iso on the harddisk (bootloader install on
the harddisk and/or small floppy/cdrom bootstrap come to mind, but I'm
just thinking out loud here)
* Make your own Fedora 7 step-by-step guide. This is important
to
help ensure that people understand and can make their own
custom
spins.
In my best Mr. Burns voice... Exccccelllent :)
Also, Rex is continuing to lead the efforts for the Fedora 7 KDE
release
and hopefully the Fedora 7 KDE LiveCD.
This feels like it'll get us to a place that's reasonable for Fedora
7
and to where we can then actually get experimentation done with "hey,
how can I get a single CD" rather than putting Fedora 7 on the line
for
the experimentation.
Comments? Flames? ...
Sounds like things are moving in a good direction to me.
-dmc/jdog
Jeremy
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