Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Karl DeBisschop kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com
Mon Dec 8 20:17:02 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:52, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com) said: 
> > 3) better definition of a truly bare-bones server install
> 
> There's the Core package group already. It's *very* small.

But nobody ever finds it in the text install. For my needs, I would have
been happy if only core were an option next to minimal in the text
install that I tend to use for my servers. In other words, to me the
problem is mostly that minimal is in fact not minimal.

> IMO, 'Server' is more or less a meaningless description without
> an adjective attached describing what you want. Web server?
> CVS server? DNS server? Shell server? Database server?

Right. And Core + BIND would get you a pretty good start on a DNS
server. But you can't pick core out of the install - so you end up
picking minimal because it sounds, well, minimal. THen remove a boatload
of RPMS.

So for my needs, putting 'Core' into the install dialogs would be
enough. But I wrote the suggestion in a little more open format to se if
ithers had a different view of things.

> > 4) MozillaFirebird
>
> One problem is that you've already got:
> 
> - mozilla
> - konqueror
> - epiphany
> 
> and people requesting galeon2, etc.
> 
> There's definitely a level of 'Too Much Choice' when it comes
> to Fedora Core. I'd suspect that to add Firebird, something
> else would go. (quite possibly Mozilla classic.)

Can't speak for others, but I'd take that trade. It's probably not
really practical, however, because epiphany (and galeon2) both depend on
the libs from mozilla classic, so ath that point why would you not have
the browser since you already had the libs. Or could galeon and epiphany
be made to run on the Firebird libs?

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Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com>
Pearson Education/Information Please





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