OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 03:04:05PM +0200, birger wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 13:26 +0100, Michal wrote:
> > On 12/05/2010 13:06, Jesse Palser wrote:
> > > OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Booted Fedora 13 RC#2 LiveCD,
> > > and was very disappointed that
> > > OpenOffice was not a default program.
> > > 
> > > I am hoping that the Final version
> > > will have OpenOffice on it?
> > 
> > Why? It's huge and lots of people will not want it by default...maybe an
> > option to install it, but not a default
> 
> Apart from the problem that I didn't manage to get F13RC2 to become
> bootable on my memory stick when installing with LiveUSB Creator, it
> should be easy to install the live image on a 2GB memory stick (or
> bigger) adding an overlay big enough to hold OpenOffice.
> 
> Perhaps on first boot the live image could detect the overlay and offer
> installation of an extended application set?

For a while, the Fedora Live image was intended to grow to be ~1 GB
this release.  However, we realized that to do that properly required
more careful choices and design than just plopping more packages on
the current default image.  So that will become part of F-14 planning,
we'll definitely be considering this kind of add-on capability as one
possibility.


-- 
Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/
  gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
  http://redhat.com/   -  -  -  -   http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
          Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com