Tom Lane wrote:
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Desktop just makes better sense for a single CD target IMO. Server users
generally are more advanced and would want to install more packages
while a significant portion of desktop users might be willing to settle
for the default desktop Lapps in a single CD.
Really? Can you fit a reasonable desktop environment on one CD these
days? (How many meg is OpenOffice at the moment?)
People have done it before. There are more than a few Live CD's and
single CD distributions which are based on Fedora (
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions/ ) and yes they can
still be useful. The magic sauce is pick a default desktop environment,
office suite, browser, music player etc and carefully prune out extra
dependencies by splitting out packages where necessary to strictly keep
up with a typical user desktop. We might have to make some hard choices
in this process but its certainly doable.
regards
Rahul
