F9 Alpha spinning

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 21:53:18 UTC 2008


On 01/30/2008 04:42 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> On 01/26/2008 05:05 PM, Luke Macken wrote:
>>> Here are some stats of todays re-spin against the latest f9-alpha 
>>> bits and
>>> livecd configs.  It looks like our desktop spin lost 2mb overnight,
>>> while everything else got bigger.  In the diff below, I also include 
>>> a list
>>> of packages that have shrunk since F8.
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6G 2008-01-26 02:28 
>>> F9-Alpha-Developer-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 767M 2008-01-26 02:42 
>>> F9-Alpha-FEL-i686-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G 2008-01-26 15:25 
>>> F9-Alpha-games-i686-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 712M 2008-01-26 01:18 
>>> F9-Alpha-i686-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 688M 2008-01-26 01:46 
>>> F9-Alpha-KDE-i686-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801M 2008-01-26 02:02 
>>> F9-Alpha-KDE-x86_64-20080126.0.iso
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 768M 2008-01-26 01:35 
>>> F9-Alpha-x86_64-20080126.0.iso
>>
>> Whatever happened to the Desktop spin?
> 
> The desktop spin has never been called that in the filename. What you 
> need is
> 
> F9-Alpha-i686-20080126.0.iso

I'm not talking about the default "Fedora" spin which provides a desktop 
(and which also lets you install server stuff).  The "Desktop" spin was 
the targeted desktop spin of packages, and with tweaks such as 
NM-on-by-default, etc.

Is that really what that iso file gives me?




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