Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 22:51:04 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> language used to expose it must express what is happening.  We
> could call it the "Useless" class if you didn't want anyone to
> select it, though that would get a flood of mailing list questions.
> "Bare-bones" has been suggested.  There's got to be the right name

"Bootstrap"

Its an absolutely minimal install you then boot to add other stuff.

It also happens to be precisely the package set a minimal installer needs
for small machines for bootstrapping literally as the name suggests, and
if bootstrap is sufficiently fittable on a single CD it makes Debian like
1 CD and network installs easier






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