On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:07:46PM +0530, Aditya Patawari wrote: > I was just reading the mails about the Fedora print magazine. There > Paul Frields said that "In the longer term we really do want to move > away from the Install DVD to a Live DVD that has more > relevant applications and content". We didn't had any SIG for creating > Live DVD and Live DVD spin. So I have started the same. The main motive of > the SIG will be to roll out one live DVD per fedora release which will > have all the packages of live cd and other packages as suggested by the > community. For this to be a success, community support is very much > required. Interested contributors please join the SIG at > [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveDVD .� Any kind of suggestions > or pointers are most > welcome. To clarify, what I was talking about was the fact that the Installation DVD is really just a continuation of what has shipped since time immemorial in Red Hat Linux many years ago. It doesn't have any particular target. At the same time, our Live CDs are highly constrained by a combination of (1) the 700 MB limit, and (2) our desire -- a worthy one, IMHO -- to keep them usable in as many languages as possible. So whenever we talk about media that includes a bunch of applications that users do really want, but we can't include on a CD-sized medium, we fall back to the DVD, which loses much of the appeal of the Live image. I think the Desktop SIG has already been discussing the need for a larger image due to constantly having to bump out useful applications to stay under the CD size limit. At the same time, the Installation DVD does provide a helpful testing bed for Anaconda. Mainly, I was just interested in the idea of existing SIGs feeling empowered to produce their Live spins for larger media, rather than everyone needing more applications having to fall back to the Installation DVD. I'm not sure what an equally untargeted generic Live spin really achieves, but at the same time, if there are contributors interested in producing one, our spin process certainly permits it. -- 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-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
