On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 01:16 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > In particular, xfs and core fonts does not fit well into the > One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort, or other Fedora derived > embedded distributions. In these embedded systems, or > reduced computing environments if you will, every megabyte > of disk space and memory counts. Shedding megs of stuff out > of the default OS installation is sure to reduce both the > memory footprint and disk footprint of the OS installation, > which is a net gain for these systems, and also for a lot > of the userbase out there that do not use any applications > which rely on core fonts. > > On the other hand, there are many applications included both > in Fedora Core, and in Fedora Extras, which do rely on the > core fonts system still, and are likely to rely on it for the > forseeable future. There are also many 3rd party open source > and commercial applications, as well as custom in-house > applications that many users and/or companies rely on, and > will want to keep working in new OS releases. Is it too late for this to be a major thrust of the Fedora Summer of Code projects? Even if it is, I think that such changes create a tremendous amount of opportunity for new folks to step into new leadership roles. I can imagine that at next years OSCON there will be a new crop of hackers who can proudly say "I cleaned up the font cruft in Project XYZ and now maintain its use of the new font system". I also think that given all the stuff that's been going on in Fedora in support of server-side computing, it makes good sense to give some major priority (which can mean major leeway) to client-side computing. M -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
