On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > Right, though ideally this isn't a big formal project, just a place > > where we can tweak some defaults or the like. I think a lot depends on > > how much time is spent on it, but agreed that at this point it seems > > clear that we need to differentiate things better on the website at a > > minimum. Not sure what that text should say yet though... > > When we say the Live images are desktop focused, what do we mean by > that? Configuration changes like network manager by default, subset of > Fedora that is good for desktop usage or something else? Ok. In this discussion, one thing I'd like to keep in mind is that the technical fact that it's a "Live CD" or "Live Media" is not the interesting part. What is interesting is that it makes some attempt at choosing a target audience and defaults+tweaks for that target[1]. Maybe this means it's a spin. As Fedora seems to be going in the direction of making it easy for people to derive from Fedora, we could start to think in those terms. Setting aside what to call it - I think the goal is to make a downloadable image that can be used as a start for: 1) Personal laptop internet terminal 2) Web developer workstation 3) Locked-down/managed lab terminal Now, I think that 2) is basically a larger set of packages (wireshark, eclipse, icedtea, ruby, etc.) on top of 1). We should make it extremely easy to turn 1) into 2), because honestly I think that's where a lot of Fedora market share currently lies. 3) is interesting but those people can use the tools to make exactly what they want. Even 1) is pretty vague, but it's at least an attempt at something. It gives us at least a guideline for figuring out what to include. For example, it makes it pretty obvious that packages like autofs and wireshark shouldn't be in the default package set. [1] Unlike the DVD, which is a massive collection of software with lots of duplicated/unnecessary functionality that makes you choose mid-install (when you've already downloaded all of it) what to copy to your drive. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
