On 1/28/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> >
> Not kidding at all. Today Fedora Core is a 4 to 5 CD's. If a user wants
> only the server packages or only the KDE packages they wouldnt know
> which CD's to download. It isnt obviously labelled or documented. What I
> am proposing is splitting up the CD's into specific targets. Fedora
> Server, Fedora Desktop, Fedora Edutainment etc that is self hosting with
> a base group that brings in compatibility between these different
> targets but it would waste some space.. Th user who wants just a desktop
> or a server can download a single CD. By default anaconda wouldnt offer
> any package selection and install everything in the CD which would only
> offer a single default browser, single mail client, DE etc. A advanced
> option during installation can allow you to do something thats similar
> to the current setup that will allow user to select different groups
> such as desktop, workstation, server etc. When clicking on a group that
> is not provided within the current CD the installer would indicate that
> additional CD's are required or alternatively pull packages from the
> network (nfs/http/ftp ...).
>
>
> --
> Rahul
>
Sounds like an interesting option to me.
How about:
CD1. Base desktop.
CD1. Server tools.
CD3. Office and Java.
CD4. Development tools.
CD5. KDE.
CD6. Extra snapshot.
etc
I would like to second that. The Extra Snapshot might need to be more
than 1 cd.. and the rest is semantics [and what can cause the greatest
heartaches.. I mean I would prefer
CD1 Minimal Fedora System/Rescue system
CD2 Gnome Desktop tools
CD3 KDE Desktop tools
CD4 Services and tools
CD5 Development Tools
CD6 Extras 1 snapshot.
CD7 Extras 2 snapshot.
CD1, CD2, CD3 could be 1 DVD and CD4,5,6,7 could be a second DVD
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator