Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Tue Dec 9 16:07:42 UTC 2003


On Monday 08 December 2003 15:09, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Note that Red Hat hasn't even shipped a kernel that supported that
> > box for multiple releases (since 7.3). I'm not sure that scaling
> > back the requirements that much is something that fits the model
> > of always moving forward with new technology.
>
> Huh?  Sure we have.  You can use the BOOT kernel if you don't mind
> missing a few pieces.  :-)
>
> Moving technology forward doesn't HAVE to mean being in a race with
> memory, cpu, and disk producing companies.  We want to scale small
> as well as large, and I'm not strictly opposed to making this
> available if we can figure out how to do it without making life
> significantly harder for us.

While minimal does create a pretty small system, it still brings in a lot of 
devel packages.  There are no compilers or real development tools, why would 
I need all of those devel packages?
-- 
Gene





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