Proposal: Split Fedora into sub-distributions

[Pavel Shevchuk]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Lyos Gemini Norezel
<lyos.gemininorezel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fedora-Development - Generic development platform

DVD has "Development" group with libs and headers and GCC and what not.


> Fedora-Legacy - Everything older than a Pentium 3 (or, alternatively... all
> processors slower than ~1.0GHz).

Join XFCE SIG, they create spin with lightweight software.


> Fedora-Server - Server distribution... should include all tools necessary to
> setup various servers

Again, DVD has "Server" group, and "Storage clustering" and "Virtualization"...


> Fedora-Live - All of the 'Live' distributions should go here... anything
> from LiveCDs to LiveUSB images.

Desktop Media, KDE Media. They're also installable on USB


> This proposal is far from complete... but I think it is necessary to stop
> trying to be a 'everything and the kitchen sink' distribution...
> and instead focus more on the groups that use fedora. For instance, the
> majority of those on mainstream, are not going to need stuff
> like apache, perl, python, etc.

Majority of mainstream can use live media. Making them choose between
>10 installation media is pointless


> John Q Public wants to read his email, browse the web, watch porn/internet
> videos, etc... not write code, manage a server, or screw
> with a command line.

Desktop Media!


> By the same token, a developer is not likely to use any gui tool that does
> not provide some extreme 'ease of use' case (be honest,
> how many of ya'll use vi or vim over gedit?).

Desktop Media after one "yum install gcc eclipse..."


> To some extent, these groups already exist, but they are not/cannot be
> complete until the distribution is behind each one.
> The infrastructure will be difficult to setup, but once done, should be a
> breeze to maintain.

You are welcome! =) Join team, contribute, maintain spins you think
are worth it.

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