Ryan Lerch píše v St 01. 10. 2014 v 12:41 -0400:
On 10/01/2014 11:01 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Jiri Eischmann píše v St 03. 09. 2014 v 13:41 +0200:
>> Hi,
>> yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should
>> produce for F21.
>> We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but with
>> the Fedora.Next changes we need to revisit it.
>> In FAmSCo, we've pretty much agreed that Multidesktop Live DVD is not
>> very aligned with the Fedora.Next initiative where we want to emphasize
>> the official products and those products should be delivered as clear
>> offerings all the way to the users. Merging them with other spins means
>> that the clear product offering is lost before it reaches the users.
>> Although Multidesktop Live DVD is economically the best solution, it is
>> not from the marketing perspective and doesn't deliver the message of
>> Fedora.Next products.
>>
>> Suggestions that have come up at the meeting:
>> * the Cloud product doesn't really need a DVD media,
>> * having one DVD with Workstation and Server Products,
>> * having separate DVDs with Workstation and Server,
>> * creating additional DVD with other flavors of Fedora (other desktops,
>> many other specialized spins?) if there is enough interest and demand.
>>
>> Christoph Wickert is going to bring it up on the workstation and server
>> group mailing lists and I'd like to start the discussion here because
>> this is very related to marketing. Opinions? :)
>>
>> Jiri
>>
>> P.S. we also discussed replacing DVDs with usb flash drives. As much as
>> we'd love to offer flash drives instead of DVDs it's still not a viable
>> option because flash drives are still 10x more expensive than DVDs. Not
>> much has changed there in the last two years :/
> We discussed the topic in FAmSCo again.
> The topic was discussed on several mailing lists and we've only
> registered strong demand for DVDs of Fedora Workstation. There have been
> some suggestions to add Fedora Server to FW as a virtual machine, but no
> one has volunteered to execute this idea and we really need to move the
> matter forward.
> So the plan is to produce Fedora Workstation DVDs, 64bit only because we
> don't know of 32-bit computers which could run FW reasonably.
With my Fedora Design hat on here, does this mean that the sleeve and
disc designs could
use the "Fedora Workstation" branding?
Yes, I suppose they should use the FW branding since the FW product will
be the only content of the DVD.
Jiri