Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size - The separated OS

[Mark Mielke]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:59:51PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:49:21AM -0500, Chip Piller wrote:
> > I have not seen this discussed here but why not just go ahead and decide 
> > to make GNOME the Fedora Core desktop?  Does it make sense to continue 
> > with multiple desktop environments?
> Yes it does, IMHO.  It's all about freedom of choice (I personally
> prefer GNOME i.s.o. KDE, b.t.w., but I use my desktop mostly for
> managing my gnometerm's ;-)).  KDE is still a major player in the
> desktop market and also for reasons of "competition" between distros
> FC should have both, IMHO, like most other distros.

> There could be more CD images, maybe, each having some subset,
> although that would be a real horror story for mirror sites.

Although, it could be a net gain (bad pun, eh?) in that most people
may transfer fewer bytes.

mark

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