Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Sat Apr 28 13:30:14 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:26 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Not sure what sub-titles I'd choose. Something that indicates the
> > > essential information about 'core' vs 'extra', I suppose.
> > > 
> > > Anyone got any ideas?
> > 
> > Fedora Repo N -> repository with all the packages 
> > Fedora Linux N -> the Linux Distribution that was known as Prime 
> 
> Hm, I don't think 'Linux' really conveys the information that these are
> the _core_ packages on the install media, rather than the extra stuff
> you might install later from the network (or extra DVDs or whatever).
> 
> I suppose 'Repo' is a little more suited to its task, but the core stuff
> is still in a repository on the install media (and elsewhere) too, so
> that name isn't ideal either.
> 
> We really want some names which convey the distinction between the Core
> stuff and the Extra bits. Got any better ideas?

No, we don't.  The Core stuff and Extra bits are intermingled between
spins.  It varies.  And there's the Everything spin.

Naming sucks.

josh




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