Maurice F. Piller wrote:
I would like to see more of an emphasis on the "Core" part of the project, it would be nice if Fedora Core 2 could be released with just 1 or 2 installation CD images.
I seriously doubt you could drop 650 Megs worth of packages out of Core without seriously pissing off a sizable part of the current userbase. I'm sure you could probably find some reasonable agreement about specific crufty redundant packages that 90%+ of the userbase don't care about...but thats not going to add up to a cd's worth of data.
And frankly... until there is an official Fedora Extras/Alternatives up and running ANY disccussion about wholesale redistribution of the distribution is a bit premature.
Want to work towards a more realistic goal? How about you gather up all the people who keep trying to stitch together the idea of making the concept of refining a 'minimal' install via a better organization of the comps file. That thread comes up again and again...and seems to go nowhere. I've still not seem a community submitted comps file show up on this list that I can test by rerolling iso images.
Any interest in producing a live CD version a la Knoppix?
Yes there is interest....but the question of the usefulness of an official Fedora live cd is a question. An official fedora livecd MUST be made up of only official bits and pieces. No ntfs support for example. In fact, Dirk Westfal is already working on an un-official derivative livecd based on fedora:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-December/msg00002.html
Ive said this before...I'd personally rather see work on in-distro tools to help people create their own live cds based on fedora, then an official fedora livecd. I'm sure an official fedora livecd could be built, but frankly I really don't know what people would use it for, instead of using knoppix/gnoppix or Dirk's livecd. Considering the non-technical constraints fedora has to live under, an official fedora livecd couldn't have the same level of functionality out of the box that other livecds have (multimedia support and ntfs being the primary usage issues.) I'd rather see work on an easy to use tool, for people to create their own customized livecds from a master fedora install...that seems to me to be the best way to encourage usage and experimentation.
-jef
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-December/msg00002.html
Ive said this before...I'd personally rather see work on in-distro tools to help people create their own live cds based on fedora, then an official fedora livecd. I'm sure an official fedora livecd could be built, but frankly I really don't know what people would use it for, instead of using knoppix/gnoppix or Dirk's livecd. Considering the non-technical constraints fedora has to live under, an official fedora livecd couldn't have the same level of functionality out of the box that other livecds have (multimedia support and ntfs being the primary usage issues.) I'd rather see work on an easy to use tool, for people to create their own customized livecds from a master fedora install...that seems to me to be the best way to encourage usage and experimentation.
I would find such a live-cd very useful for many things. From hardware testing, beta testing new apps, etc. (And I don't see why this would be again a discussion point to add things Red Hat cannot put up for redistribution.)
greetings,
Florian La Roche