OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Fri May 20 08:06:22 UTC 2005


Hi

>why should any install of any distribution require more than one cd? 
>
I think everyone would agree that having a single CD minimalistic 
installation would be a good thing to do and the general trend is 
towards that but its a question of balances and the definition of what 
Fedora Core should be.  If you retain only the defaults in Fedora Core 
what segment should it cover. Should it be just the basic tools on a 
fuzzy definition of what consitutes the "Linux platform" ? should it be 
server/desktop/ development oriented?  Is XFCE or Fluxbox a target?. 
Should GCC and family be included?. Does Openoffice.org replace 
Abiword?. Is a DTP application like Scribus considered a desktop 
application or a niche target?.  Does GNOME include a good CD burner?.  
What are the potential alternatives?. Should we include both Emacs and Vim?

As you can see there are a large number of questions that one should 
think about before slimming down the installation.  The effects of 
previous dicussion on Fedora-devel is already visible in the development 
tree and in Fedora Core 4 when its released. What one might consider 
bloat is someone else favorite application. If you are interested in 
contributing,  sane well thought posts to the fedora-devel list and  a 
patch against comps.xml file would be good.

regards
Rahul




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