On Tue, 27 Nov 2006 22:42:42 -0500 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: >> One distribution. One fedora. Keep it simple. > >One distribution, 38 CDs? Ah-HA! So the real reason for the idiotic partitioning into multiple distributions is size of distribution media! In that case, the partitioning should be based on size, not on some kind of functional categories that just confuse people trying to figure out which one to install (one of my main objections to suse, by the way). Pretty soon they just throw up their hands and say, "To heck with it, I'll just go install ubuntu" :-). What we should have instead of Workstation, Server, Media Edition, ad infinitum is CD, DVD, and The Universe. With a very clear statement up front that all distributions have identical content available with just different amounts of stuff on the ISO and the rest available from the internet. And when BluRay and HD-DVD are common, it will all fit on one disk anyway :-). You could take a survey and have people mail in their /var/log/rpmpkgs files and determine what to put on the media based on the popularity of packages installed and when the media runs out of space.
