On 4/18/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18/04/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 05:31:30 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > +1 this seems deserving of answer. I like Fedora, use it all the time, > > and so rarely need a liveCD. And I am finding it harder to suggest > > Fedora to newbies. The LiveCD doesn't seem like that's going to > > change. I''m simply not suggesting any Linux since I'm only familiar > > with Fedora. The LiveCD certainly has a cool factor. But in the > > hypothetical scenario of a perfect LiveCD, what are the benefits? What > > are the hypothetical use cases of said perfect Live Fedora? > > No software is perfect, and surprise you can use yum from the LiveCD to add > more software. > > There are plenty of usage cases outside the "I want to listen to mp3s" crowd. > Very common workflows (or playflows) include the following: 1) Web browsing: the viewing of HTML pages
Will only be able to view non media rich pages
2) Email: the downloading, display, and sending of electronic mail
Should work, assuming no wifi
3) Chatting: communicating with other humans via one (or more) or the following chat protocols: yahoo, msn, icq
Should work, assuming no wifi
4) Listening to audio: the playback of mp3 files
Won't work
5) Watching video: the playback of mpg, avi, and wmv files
Won't work, except for .ogg
6) Viewing pictures: the display of jpeg files
Should work
7) Word Processing: creating, editing, and display of text documents
Should work, sans abilty to embed media files
in txt, rtf, and doc formats 8) Spreadsheet: creating, editing, and display of spreadsheets in excel format
Should work, but minus some upstream functionality
I'm sure there's more that I missed. But these are examples of the most basic functions that any computer (and operating system) are expected to perform. If an OS cannot do any of these, then it is not adequate for general use. Fedora is thus bound by law to be inadequate for general use out of the box. That is easily fixed by those in the know, but not by a passer-by who downloads the distro (or LiveCD) and plays around with it. Again I ask: to whom is the official LiveCD aimed at? I do not think that Redhat can (legally) produce a LiveCD suitable for the general public. Rather, this is better left to the community, who are not bound by such restrictive laws, and can legally create and distribute such a disk. The only question for Redhat is should Redhat allow the community to use the Fedora name on the disk. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/short_answer/why_are_internet_greeting_cards_dangerous.html http://what-is-what.com/what_is/wikipedia.html -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
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