Fedora Education Spin

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:26:39 +0530
> Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> 
>> I think you are drastically underestimating the value of this fitting 
>> into a CD and more granularity in packages. It *is* a big deal.
> 
> 
> And I think you're limited by the assumption that the only way to run
> or install a Live image is by running a CD sized media.  It's not.

The other ways aren't anywhere as easy or accessible to everyone. Look 
at the number of complaints we are getting about not releasing regular 
CD images or that live images aren't CD size for x86_64. Besides more 
granularity in packages is a good thing to have anyway if Fedora has to 
retain it's goal of being a good foundation to build things for OLPC or 
other resource constrained systems.

> There are a few ways now, and we can certainly put work into creating
> more and easier ways to consume these images.  Software is only getting
> bigger, and the CD size is only going to further limit what we can do.
> Functionality of the CD sized image will only get worse, not better.

That's a good challenge to have to prevent software from getting too 
bloated or packages from growing unneeded dependencies. Maybe CD's would 
get obsoleted completely sometime in the future. We haven't reached that 
point yet.

Rahul