On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:33, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:35 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > Norm wrote: > > > Personally I prefer Gnome, but then that is my choice. One thing I > > > like about Linux when compared to that other operating system is > > > one does have choices. > > > My feeling is the core of Fedora at 5 cd's is getting a little out > > > of hand; if I may make a suggestion in this area why not reduce the > > > core to a true minimum needed to intiate an installation and create > > > bundles of > > > > I have suggested this before, only much more hard'core'. The "true > > minimum' needed to initiate an installation is a relatively small > > packageset that does not require X or a Desktop Environment, in fact > > I proposed to precook that minimum into a tarball and poop it onto > > your HDD in one shot, boot into that and bring in what you need in a > > < 1 minute install action. > > > > Put another way, no playing favourites, blow Gnome into Extras too, > > turn the actual 'core' into something that is good for Firewalls, > > routers, server duties AND the basis of a Desktop box. > > +1 > > Ralf All very well for experienced users and for those with high speed connections for the downloads. However I can see new users having major problems. That is unless it's made "very very" easy to install other packages and groups of packages. Remember a new user doesn't want to have to learn about core and extras and the difference. Nor does she/he want to know all about yum. They just want a system that works "out of the box". Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick
