On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:12:55AM -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:53:00 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > > > > > > >On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > > >>>> applications on them. > >>> > >>> But we didn't remove the useful application: firefox is still in :-) > >> > >> So i take the target audience of this spin is people using applications in > >> the "cloud" (web services)? > >> > > > >How about anyone who uses the internet? > >firefox and a terminal w/ssh gives me access to: > > > >1. my email > >2. all the news in the world > >3. a system for developing on > >4. the necessary tools for adding new things to my system > >5. all the documentation I could ever want > > > >that sounds pretty encompassing to me. > > But are you, or for that matter anyone else on these lists who already > use Fedora, the target of the live cd? > > If, as mentioned in the original question regarding target audience, > the point of the live cd is something to hand out to people new to > Fedora to show them what Fedora/Linux offers then removing things like > Gimp may be the wrong thing to do. > > The Fedora download page says this about the live cd: > > "This is the latest version of the Fedora Linux operating system > featuring the GNOME desktop. It's everything you need to try out > Fedora?and if you like it, install it right from the desktop!" > > This to me means things like Gimp should stay on the live cd, because > it is one of the features of Fedora/Linux that people may want to try > out. I could substitute quite a lot of random applications for "Gimp" above and that argument would be the same -- which probably means it's not a very strong one. The Desktop Live CD has sufficient applications for someone to browse the web; retrieve, read, and send email; create business documents; and view and organize media. And it has support for searching and later installing additional software. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
