Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > I think it is feasible to have both the GNOME and KDE variants fit into > single CD's even with openoffice.org. There are even several Fedora > based ones at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions/ On a live CD, with trimmed packages? Yes. On a CD of packages, *with langpacks*? No. It just does not fit - it's 719MB. > >Burn a DVD set of the tree itself, ship it somewhere to "seed" the mirror, > >go from there. > > I suspect it is far more easier to having it part of the formal releases > . It is just a dump of all packages. Since we are going to move away > from a rolling release model even for the current Fedora Extras, this > shouldnt require much more additional work. The issue is that what sort of defaults do you use - the desktop? The server? Do you really want to a third set of integration? > >Alternative kernels == doom. Its going to be bad enough if we have to do > >a standalone xen kernel that moves at a different pace than the other > >kernels. kmods blow up. Userland changes become harder to make. > >Security flaws... > > We do already have alternative kernels like the one for Xen. Real time > is just going to another one on top. But Xen is a large maintenance headache. RT adds on to this, *while changing core kernel code*. I'm hereby withdrawing this as a feature. :) Bill _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
