Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 20:18:17 UTC 2007


On 4/18/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/04/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > What does it provide that Knoppix/Slax does not? Or is RH doing this
> > > "because they can"?
> > >
> >
> > It provides a way to distribute Fedora as Live image which many end
> > users find useful and have repeatedly asked for. Of course we do it
> > because we can. Do you have a problem with that?
> >
> > Rahul
> >
>
> Rahul, I have no problem with doing something because one can. Man
> walked on the moon because 'he could', and in the process technology
> had been advanced in ways that profit every walk of life. I have
> repeatedly expressed the need for a one (or at least not _five_) disk
> install. However, I don't think that Fedora should be used to
> introduce people to Linux (reasons given in previous email), and
> that's a very likely scenario for a LiveCD. That is a situation that
> must be considered.
>
> Dotan Cohen

Dotan,

I think I share your opinions on the LiveCD. Especially after going
through issues with the last two people I recommended Fedora to, I
fear I may have turned them off linux for awhile. Nevertheless, might
I suggest a wait-and-see approach to further discussion against the
LiveCD - hopefully the Fedora project will collect some statistics as
to how successfully it is. Personally, I think Fedora could better
benifit from pioneering ease and versatility of installation, since no
other OS seems to have anything that great in terms of installation
yet, but that' my $0.02 which doesn't even have time to implement said
idea.

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Fedora Core 6 and proud




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