[Fedora-spins] LiveCD Twister

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Fri Feb 20 23:35:52 UTC 2009


Igor Pires Soares wrote:
> Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 04:42 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen escreveu: 
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I wanna take a few spins for a quick vote;
>>
>> == The Education Spin ==
>>
>> My primary concern about maybe not being able to override --instLangs 
>> from within a localized kickstart inheriting this kickstart is lifted; 
>> it works like a charm. There are no further objections to this spin but 
>> concern over the reason as to why the spin needs to save so much space 
>> (yet ship two desktop environments).
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Education_Spin
> 
> I give a +1 for this one too. In my opinion this new approach will hit a
> broader audience than the spin created for F10.

As I'm the maintainer, no vote from my side here. But I think you're 
mentioning exactly, what we're trying to achieve. We worked out a new 
approach and are now not anymore limited to mathematics or so...

>> == The BrOffice.org Spin ==
>>
>> Just changed to use --instLangs en_US:pt_BR ;-) This has been a spin for 
>> Fedora 10 and should thus go through very smoothly.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrOffice.org_Spin
> 
> I am the maintainer of this one. The kickstart file is almost the same
> previously approved for Fedora 10. I am keeping it as straightforward as
> possible. I think its download statistics are really good for a first
> release. For Fedora 11 we are including all BrOffice.org packages and I
> expect things to get even better.

And a +1 here! :) Looks very sane in my opinion.

Using the instLangs argument might help here to get the office suite 
better in (without dropping too much other stuff), yep...

> Regards,
> Igor Pires Soares

Thanks,
--Sebastian



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