> Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:55:37 -0600 > From: Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: What is the fascination with 'spins' > To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <20070205165537.GD1488683@xxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Once upon a time, monty19@ hotmail.com <monty19@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > But the question I asked before that still hasn't been answered, is how big > > is Extras right now? It looks (probably quite desceptively) relatively > > small when looking at the directory on download.fedora.redhat.com. Does > > the sum total for Core and Extras really add up to more than the 4.7 GB > > that a DVD would provide? Do you really even need two DVD images to get a > > complete install? > > $ du -sh core/development/i386/os/ extras/development/i386/ > 3.6G core/development/i386/os/ > 4.7G extras/development/i386/ > > I'm in the "don't like lots of spins" camp (I don't want to have to burn > a Desktop DVD, a KDE DVD, a Developer DVD, and a Server DVD just to > avoid burning a 2-DVD "full" set), but I also see the issue with an > explosion of CDs. > > However: who says CDs and DVDs have to be the same "spins"? Have a > "desktop" slimmed-down CD spin as the CD set and a "full" spin as the > DVD set. > > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > Hi, For what it's worth, I'm not a developer, but I manage a few servers and use fedora an my sole desktop. On my desktop I run several services like ssh. apache, ftp, and starting to run NX to manage the servers at work. And, I would prefer the server spin. I don't mind multiple DVD's. I use rewriteable DVD's and keep the current and previos releases on hand. I myself would prefer a DVD(s) with everything on it, that was selectable at install time. I don't know everything that is in extras and happen to stuble across something once in awhile that really helps. But, without a menu at install time like the core items I don't know about them. And it's not easy ( time consuming ) to go though the extras menu and selecting each item one by one, when I could have a menu by program type listing the program with a breif desctiption and just check them off to be installed ay install time. I guess I wouldn't mine the way FC6 was designed if it worked. Thanks, Just one users POV. Todd I tried using the selection od extras in FC6, but the install always blew up when ever I tried. > > ------------------------------ > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > > End of fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 17 > ************************************************ > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list