On 9/14/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think this group created the confusion when they started calling it > the "Desktop" Live image. From day one this was the image that Fedora > wanted to put out as /THE/ Fedora image. What should be on /THE/ Fedora image? The web site says: "Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software." You know Apache httpd is pretty important open source software, why doesn't the CD have it? Eclipse? Why not OpenOffice? The latest KDE? Saying it's the Fedora image gives us no guidelines for what it includes. The point I'm trying to make, and that I brought up before when we were originally discussing the desktop spin, is that I believe relatively few people want to *download* a showcase. I think we should very much pimp that Fedora is built on (showcases) the latest and greatest FOSS, but in the end people want to download something to use for a specific *purpose*. And that takes different forms for different markets. The desktop spin was supposed to be suitable as a general non-developer download, showcasing GNOME etc. The KDE spin is targeted for those people. The developer spin is for the people who want gcc and editors out of the box. > As in if you don't want one > of the special spins, this is /THE/ spin we want you to have, and we > want the media to focus on, and we want to hand out at events. At events, I suggest that ideally we want to get to the point where the DVD when it boots up lets you choose which of the spins you want to install. The spins are fundamentally just a comps group + kickstart file. If you don't want to burn a DVD, then you have to choose what to put on it. At a developer focused conference, you'd want to be handing out the developer spin. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
