No Desktop Live CD?

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 14:12:14 UTC 2007


On 9/14/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> 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.
>

Now I am confused.  I thought we were working on a separate spin of
Fedora with experimental "desktop" features and configurations.  Would
a name like Enhanced Desktop Spin be better?  Then we could refer to
it as the E.D. Spin :-)

Jon




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