I'm pretty sure we can get a single-CD that shows off a decent GNOME desktop, including a web browser, email client, network connections and a few other items. It's not enough that they are able to bootstrap themselves onto the network. I suspect that some basic functionality would also be nice. Can we do firefox + evo + OOo? I suspect so. --Chris On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 07:12 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > >>There's also the question of if we're server focused or desktop focused. > > >>Right now it's some strange combination of both. But for a one-cd > > >>install we're going to have to make a choice between the two. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Good question. > > > > > >--g > > > > > > > > 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. > IMO, distinguishing between desktop and server installs and basing > decisions on "whether to include a package or not onto this CD" on this, > doesn't make much sense due to the "rolling nature" of _both_ FC and FE. > > I'd prefer if a "1CD-Fedora" was to contain only those packages a user > needs to be able to bring up his system to the point, where he can > configure it and download additional packages from the net. > > I.e. I'd prefer a 1CD-Fedora not to be much more than an extended > "installer/bootstrap CD". > > "Office", etc. then would not be much more than "predefined sets of > packages, a user would chose to install. Be it from CD, the net or > whatever media. > > > There is still a question > > of providing specific targets such as GNOME, KDE and XFCE among others. > Given what I wrote above, if one of these is part of "packages required > to bootstrap", so be it on the 1CD, if not, so be it not ... > > > This can be resolved by building one and enable the community to build > > the rest. > I feel you seem to be mixing up "1CD-distro" with "FC vs. FE" and > "RH-maintained vs. community-maintained", here. In my understanding > there actually is no real connection between these topics at all. > > > Ralf > > > -- > Fedora-maintainers mailing list > Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers
