On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> The only way to change that IMHO is to distribute a million of
> FC5 on media for free, that's basically all that's about Ubuntu.
> Other than that I don't see any strong reason for Ubuntu's sudden
> acceptance. Yes, the debian base is a +, but it's not the first
> debian derivative either.
I completely agree.
> What we need is Fedora DVDs with Core and some Extra packages,
> in a shiny package. The important question is who will pay for
> the costs. We need Red Hat or somewhere else (GNOME Foundation?)
> support the production. The distribution can be distributed on
> the developers and evangelists for free I guess.
I agree with this too -- except that a DVD covers only half of our target.
What we really need:
1. A Live CD;
2. A one-CD install;
3. A DVD.
We can spew out all the DVDs we want, but we're getting killed on the
one-CD install in most of the world.
My hope is that we make some headway in the Live CD project. It will do
two things:
a. Give us a Live CD (obviously);
b. Give us great tools for selecting the right packages for the one-CD
install.
Darko Ilic of the Live CD project should be putting code up soon. I'm
hoping to pull a project together, soon, that focuses on this problem.
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