usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[Rahul]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:10 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>> David Zeuthen wrote:
>>
>>> [1] : well, all the daily crob jobs like updatedb etc. plus much more
>>> would have to go :-)
>> Not very relevant to larger idea of a derived distro which might very 
>> well be a good thing to try but we dont run updatedb cron by default for 
>> a while now.
> 
> Well, I'm aware of that, but the script is still installed with tons of
> other stuff that we don't need on a modern desktop [1]. There's so many
> things we have right now that we don't need in a desktop distro.
> 
> For example, the very idea of using anaconda to install the OS is just
> wrong in 2006. The way you want to do this (and Ubuntu is doing this
> already) is clearly to have a bootable CD with a "Install OS to hard
> disk" icon that does what you want. Nothing more, nothing less. 

They do have a traditional style installer too. I was discussing the 
Live CD with installer option in fedora-livecd list and Jeremy Katz 
didnt appear too keen on it. However I completely agree with you on 
having this atleast as a option. If we have enough people willing to do 
a Fedora Desktop derivative, then lets just do that. We are going down 
that path of enabling such things to happen anyway.


Rahul