RE: Fedora Targets
this is tring to make it fedora for dumbs i think
but the problems with this are that you would probley want the dev tools on
a disk to and anyone just starting with fedora new to linux would download
just the desktop cd and not be aware of the fact that 50% of software out
there will need the dev tools to compile
this would be even hard to draw lines between server and desktop software
sence you give the user no review and edit option becuase of a desktop
software that most people use that is lilsted in the server group Samba and
other office software that most home users would need
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com>
Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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To: pjones(a)redhat.com,For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Fedora Targets
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:36:27 +0530
Hi
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>>Installer could provide a advanced option for multiple targets at the
>>same time...
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>Dude, what on Earth are you talking about?
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>You're kidding, right?
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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
...).
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Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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