Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 15:26 -0800 schrieb Jesse Keating: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:12 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 14:36 -0800 schrieb Jesse Keating: > > > > > Desktop wasn't supposed to be a "spin". Desktop is a live version of > > > part of what was on the DVD set. KDE is the same thing, a live version > > > of some of what was on the DVD set. They are not things /different/ > > > from the DVD set, which is what the Spins are. > > > > So by that definition, how are LXDE and Xfce different from KDE or > > GNOME? The only difference is that they are not on the DVD, but they all > > are desktop environments with a collection of applications. > > They are different because they are "spins". They are things which are > more sig driven than project driven, Same goes for KDE > they are offered torrent only, This is something I would like to see changed > the > comprise packages mostly not found on the DVD / split media offering, This is something we should change too. Xfce and LXDE will only take another 30 MB on the DVD image. > they do not get full/any attention, they do not get full/any marketing > attention, they are not printed on media and handed out at events as > "Fedora", should I go on? No need to. It's nice to have somebody confirm my concerns. I think we both agree that it's difficult to define what a spin is. KDE shows us that it's difficult to draw a line. Regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
