What is the fascination with 'spins'
Alfredo Ferrari
list at pceet030.cern.ch
Mon Feb 5 21:20:11 UTC 2007
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Quoting Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com>:
>
>> monty19@ hotmail.com wrote:
>>> OK, here goes. I'll probably have to duck and run for my life after
>>> this, although it's not my intention to upset anyone by any means.
>>>
>>> Personally, I think having separate ISO images for Desktop, Developer,
>>> Server, KDE, and whatever else is a pretty silly idea.
>>
>> Agreed, especially if one uses programs from all categories.
>>
>
> I also agree here. I love having one DVD to do it all. After all, when the
> base install is on the system, it's pretty much a matter of using yum to
> install what else you need anyhow....
>
> I think the whole point of spins are to make things easier for newbies - a
> default install if you will that has the most common apps. This being said, I
> would like to see a 'newbie' CD and a single DVD instead of a multitude of
> other options.
>
> I install on 2 machines... One that does pretty much everything internet, and
> another one for testing, asterisk, streaming DVB via multicast and whatever
> else catches my fancy. It's great being able to do that from a single DVD.
>
>
+1
I install some 10+ different machines and none of them can be easily
defined as a desktop/server etc. I typically use packages from all
categories, having one DVD is muuuch better.
Alfredo
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