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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:08:12 From: Ricardo Mendonça Ferreira ric@mpcnet.com.br To: admin@fedoraproject.org Subject: Fedora Spins makes my head spin...

Hi there!

Excuse me, but is there a page in http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ that explains what is each spin?

I've been a Fedora user since version 1 (up to version 6), and used it on several computers. Now I wanted to give it a try again, and the possibility of using an "official" Live CD (instead of going through the trouble of creating my own) is very enticing.

The problem is: how am I supposed to know what is in each spin? The names are cryptic, there are no links for documentation, no list of packages on each spin, not even a brief description (or non-cryptic name) of each spin!

I believe that the spartan page is characteristic of the Linux ethos, but that's also one of the reasons for it to not be so widely adopted... not to mention that it doesn't make justice to the hard work of those who put effort and spent time creating those spins.

I'll probably try the installation DVD using Qemu anyway, but I wanted to let you know about this problem since I'm sure a lot of other people will think the same: a good (even short) description of the spins would make them much, much more useful and popular.

Thank you for your attention,

Ricardo.