No Desktop Live CD?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:54 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:53:27 +0100
> Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > I thought Fedora-7.91-Live-i686.iso  was the "desktop" live cd.  
> > > 
> > > It really should be renamed to match what we call it.  
> > 
> > Hence my confusion.
> 
> I think this group created the confusion when they started calling it
> the "Desktop" Live image.  From day one this was the image that Fedora
> wanted to put out as /THE/ Fedora image.  As in if you don't want one
> of the special spins, this is /THE/ spin we want you to have, and we
> want the media to focus on, and we want to hand out at events.  The
> premiere, spectacular, most special spin, that gets the grand name
> space of "Fedora Live Image".  You've created confusion by referring to
> it as the "Desktop" image.  Maybe that's because you want to create a
> second live image that is more experimental and not the premiere live
> image, and that's fine, and it does deserve a special name, but that's
> a different beast than what is /the/ Fedora image right now.

The goal of the desktop sig is to create a live image that is optimized 
for desktop use. That doesn't mean "experimental". But it does mean that
we want to get out of the position that we can't do changes that improve
the desktop experience but may not work on an ppc64 print server. 

And I don't think it serves Fedora well to have a totally generic image
as /THE/ Fedora image, when most of the downloaded images will be used
in a desktop scenario.