What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/6/07, James Hubbard <jameshubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/5/07, James Hubbard <jameshubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's not a fair assumption.  Almost all of the developers in my
> > > organization have laptops that are running some form of Fedora,
> > > because it's almost always easier to get fedora running on laptops
> > > because of better component support.  It seems to be easier to get
> > > things like wifi, susped/resume, etc working.
> >
> > Yes. But you said their laptops....aren't they responsible for their
> > laptops? Or is their a single IT person responsible for installing
> > Fedora on the laptops of your fellow employees?
>
> Typically what happens is that one or two of us blaze the trail to a
> new release.  I'm usually the first.  As long as nothing major breaks
> and we can get meaningful work done others will start using the new
> release.  Once there's a few of us using it, someone will setup
> another desktop/laptop for the sysadmin shop with what is needed.
> They'll ghost it and use the image for a while.
>
> Not all of the developers are interested in installing their own
> systems.  New hires that don't have a lot of experience with Linux
> usually get the ghosted image.  I believe there may be one or two
> using Gentoo and perhaps one using Ubuntu.
>
> For FC6, I had to spend a couple of hours getting the fc5 OpenMotif
> srpm to compile, making sure that one of the major apps that we
> support compiled and ran properly. OpenMotif is a requirement for us.
>
> The process for creating custom "spins" needs to be as easy as
> possible.  We finally got the process for creating FC5 "spins"
> automated after a few days of effort.  Whatever is created for "spins"
> needs to be easy to use and work for multiple version releases.  For
> example, I want to be able to create a Fedora 9 or 10 spin on my
> Fedora 7 box that contains the files.

Sounds like you have serious needs. I hope your keeping a close eye on
the dev process so you may put in some constructive input. May make
life easier for you later on.

Peace

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