[Fedora-livecd-list] Proposed changes for fedora

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Tue Nov 28 12:07:58 UTC 2006


Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>   When visiting Distrowatch.com, I found the following
> information about Fedora
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20061127
> 
> Far-reaching changes affecting the Fedora distribution
> are looming on the horizon. Discussed by the project's
> core developers during the recently concluded Fedora
> Summit, a number of new ideas are currently being
> submitted for approval by Red Hat. If they are
> accepted, the "Core" and "Extras" parts of Fedora will
> merge into what is tentatively called Fedora
> "Complete", with two separate products, named "Fedora
> Desktop" and "Fedora Server", emerging from the huge
> software list. Extending the current support period of
> about 9 months to around 13 months is another
> important proposal that will please many Fedora users.
> Those who enjoy remastering the distribution for their
> own purposes will be excited to learn about "pungi"
> and "pilgrim", two tools that will allow building
> custom distributions and live CDs/DVDs. Pilgrim is
> also expected to help with delivering an official
> Fedora live CD/DVD. There is a lot more - please visit
> the Proposed Changes to the Release Process and Live
> CD Roadmap pages on FedoraProject.org for more details
> about these and other changes affecting the popular
> distribution.
> 
> Is there any way for the community to have some input
> on these issues?
> 
> Is there also another way to find out that these
> changes are being proposed?  Many community members
> are uninformed and object to some changes when they
> are made, but since they had no voice they could not
> do anything about it.  
> 
> Some of these changes like "Fedora Total" seem very
> logical.  We'll still have to wait and see what
> happens.  

These topics are being discussed on 'fedora-devel-list'

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