Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 1/22/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:36 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > If ISO space is an issue, why not go whole hog: Get rid of ISOs
> > completely, and replace them with simple lists of rpms that are
> > merely suggestions from the editors for different groups of
> > packages that seem useful for different purposes.
>
> Something like Gentoo Linux, do you mean?
>
> I'm not sure I'm keen on this idea of several DVD ISOs.  That's a hell
> of a lot to download.  There was a move, for a while, to make core and
> extra really that.  Core being just what's required to run it.  Allowing
> you to easily do a minimal install.  Now it's running in the other way.
>
> Now, you'll have to download a huge ISO or do a network install for a
> minimal install?

That's not what the dude suggested at all. He's suggestion is for an
app (would have to be client side and cross OS) to design your own
spin pulling the RPMs only (only RPMs would then have to be mirrored)
and creating a .iso from that. - think Anaconda/Piruit but the target
would be a .iso instead of installing to a hard drive - I think it's a
good idea, especially if a GUI is slapped on it and is avaialble for
MAcOS, Windows and Linux.

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