Re: Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/13/2014 11:21 AM, Dhaval Anjaria wrote:

Honest question, would it be very hard, or problematic somehow to offer the three major Fedora spins as they are, but also offer a big Fedora DVD? I understand that it takes a lot of effort to know what to fit in exactly 4.7 Gigs but I guess there is a demand for it, right?

(Scroll down below for my answer to this question.)

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 01:14 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> But your concern is also an important point. These "products" are
> fragmenting Fedora for no good reason, and actually confusing users.

I think the confusion arises from the term "product". I've no idea what
it's supposed to mean. OTOH "spin" isn't very clear to the newbie user
either. That said, some such term to indicate typical configurations of
Fedora is a useful idea. I well remember the tedium of installing the
DVD version and wading through a seemingly interminable series of menus
about exactly which packages I wanted. Having access to that level of
detail is useful for some, but most people would probably prefer not to
have to do it except at the outermost level, especially if they're
newbies. I think that's what the various "products" are trying to
achieve, though the results are less than ideal at the moment.

poc

I gathered they stopped issuing the DVD after cramming "everything" on one disk became, frankly, problematic. And when network upgrade became all the rage. (It was a little difficult to manage at first.)

Temlakos

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