Interested in helping improve the Fedora desktop experience?

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Wed Oct 21 19:46:40 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:30 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
>>
>> If I'm a consumer and I see "Live Image" with no other context - I say
>> as opposed to... "dead?"  And of course, we know that isn't the case.
>> It is, actually, as opposed to the "older technology that just runs an
>> installer but not in the familiar desktop environment but may be
>> better for servers but we don't know exactly why and no one looks at
>> anymore and oh yeah it does upgrades" CD/DVD.  Oh yeah - silly me.
>>
>
> Selectable filesystems, selectable packages, updates at install time,
> install over the network, upgrades, yeah that image.

Rather that talk about this again in email, I created a wiki page here
with some thoughts on how we could bring the benefits of both
together:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UnifiedInstaller

I'm sure there would be a lot of opportunity for optimization if we
shipped .rpm files on the live image, but then again we have 4+
gigabytes.




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