grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]
Sean Middleditch
elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Fri Jan 28 15:56:22 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:52 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Right. "Operating System." XMMS is not part of an OS, it's an
> > application that nobody strictly needs. You don't need to put XMMS in
> > Fedora Core in order for Core to use or run XMMS, and its removal will
> > not reduce Core's audio capabilities in the least.
>
> hmm, OS... let's deliver the kernel only, the rest is just bloat :)
Sounds like a plan. Though maybe we should throw in the boot loader,
too. I think those together plus the initial ramdisk should be enough
for most Linux users. They can grab auxillary things like binutils and
rpm from Extras. ~_^
Manual system bootstrapping is k00l.
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