FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Mathieu Bridon
<bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 08:44 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> On 01/29/2014 08:36 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Matthew Miller
>> > <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:59:55AM -0500, Christian Schaller
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> There is no plan to change this from what has been the primary
>> >>> delivery methods of Fedora so far. That said I think the
>> >>> emphasis will need to change where a USB sticks is the primary
>> >>> medium and DVDs the secondary.
>> >>
>> >> I know this is kind of an aside comment, but I now wonder why we
>> >> didn't do that years ago.
>> >
>> > The Desktop spin essentially did quite a while ago.  The DVD is
>> > something that keeps getting churned out because it always has
>> > been afaik.  Every time we try to kill it, people bring up having a
>> > single thing to do non-network installs from for bandwidth limited
>> > areas, or having multiple DEs to chose from, etc.  It's basically
>> > the "choose your own adventure" Fedora option and people still want
>> > that.
>>
>> Well, this doesn't necessitate a *DVD* option. It might be grounds for
>> differently-sized USB options though. (I.e. a 2GB max image for live
>> media, an 8GB max image for choose-your-own-adventure).
>
> For the « choose your own adventure », there's also the multi-live
> image, which includes many (all?) of the desktops available in Fedora,
> iirc both in 32 and 64 bits.
>
> That probably deserves the same fate as the DVD. (although many
> ambassadors seem to be quite fond of this image)

I don't really see much connection between the multi-live image and
the DVD install images. The multi-live was never intended for end
users to download and serves a great purpose where Fedora is
demonstrated and handed out at events. Those using it can and do use
it in several forms, DVDs pressed for distribution, installed directly
on the hard drive of a demo system, and for use with USB/SD devices.

Why do you think it deserves any fate? Maybe I am not seeing how its
existence would adversely impact the new Workstation product. Assuming
there are still multiple versions of live spins this image is nothing
more than a simple aggregation of the most popular live media.

John