Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxx) said: > Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2013, 12:48 -0500 schrieb Bill Nottingham: > > Redirecting from spins@. > > > > Dennis Gilmore (dennis@xxxxxxxx) said: > > > [the multi-desktop DVD] uses grub/syslinux to select which of the 5 desktop lives you > > > want to run. its designed for use by ambassadors to give out at events. > > > it has both 32 and 64 bit images on it its designed for use with dual > > > layer media. Release Engineering produce it for final only to be used > > > to create media to be given away at events, it is not designed or > > > intended for general consumption. > > > > If it's not intended for general consumption, why on earth is it > > what we give away at events? > > Because it hard to guess in advance what people want: GNOME, KDE, Xfce, > LXDE, i386, x86_64. You always run out of something and we ended up > shipping media back and forth. With the multi-images, live has become so > much easier for the Ambassadors - not to mention that we cut costs by > over 50% (or by 400% if you consider one DVD 8 CDs). > > > Shouldn't what we give to people be something that is intended for > > general consumption? > > Sure, but what defines "intended for general consumption"? I don't know, I'm just going by how Dennis described it. I'm also concerned that part of the problem is having essentially 8 deliverables that people might want at the show that requires this level of hacking together but I realize that not everyone shares that opinion. Bill _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
