On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hm, I've always thought of it differently - if we're trying to provide good > value in the DVD media as a demonstration of all the things you can do with > Fedora It did. Until I couldn't install multiple desktops anymore. (18) >Isn't there more value in a development workstation Of course there is. Yet, we remove things like GCC from the default install. Why? > or a design suite I don't think this is needed on the DVD. This should be a separate spin (I think it is already). One can always "yum install gimp" after having a working desktop or "minimal" install. >or a web application stach, or other dissimilar things rather than Define "web application stack". This definition changes daily. > the marginal added value of a 4th (or 5th, or 6th, or 7th) desktop? I disagree that these are "marginal" value adds considering they got more press than any other feature in Fedora 18. > This is also why I've always found the multi-desktop DVD to be a strange > thing to hand out. I agree. It's useless to an experienced user. I'd rather be handing out netinstall CD's as an ambassador. Cheaper, leaner, more updated packages get installed. > unless we're trying to tell people that Fedora is best > for picking between one of 7 desktops and not other things. We're trying to be too many things at once. Let's get back to basics. A nice stable linux distro that offers you the most choice with the most updated packages that is stable. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
