Smolt: firsboot revisited

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:36 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> ons, 14 02 2007 kl. 11:08 -0600, skrev Josh Boyer:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:00 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:59, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > > So smolt is still setup in firstboot and still is opt in.  My question
> > > > is do we want to install smolt as part of a default configuration with
> > > > F7.  My vote is yes.
> > > 
> > > I vote yes too, but I want to see other votes before I just do it (:
> > 
> > For which spins?  Desktop, Server, and KDE?  I would say sure.  You'd
> > have to ask the KDE spin guys though.  And I don't think it should be
> > functional on the LiveCD really... 
> 
> It might be useful to have it available. I often boot a LiveCD on
> friends machines to see if the hardware is generally supported. It would
> be helpful to have a nice little frontend to tell the stats page "This
> is the liveCD, all this hardware works" (ands maybe even flag something
> as problematic).
> 
> I de realise this is more a LCHD (or whatever that larger database is
> called - honestly it needs a sexier name).

Right, I think that belongs more in the other project you mention.  We
don't want to bloat smolt numbers with LiveCD statistics unless people
actually _install_ Fedora from the LiveCD.  And if they do that, then
it's a firstboot option anyway.

josh