grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Fri Jan 28 16:04:58 UTC 2005


Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:52 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>>Sean Middleditch wrote:
>>
>>>Right.  "Operating System."  XMMS is not part of an OS, it's an
>>>application that nobody strictly needs.  You don't need to put XMMS in
>>>Fedora Core in order for Core to use or run XMMS, and its removal will
>>>not reduce Core's audio capabilities in the least.
>>
>>hmm, OS... let's deliver the kernel only, the rest is just bloat :)
> 
> 
> Sounds like a plan.  Though maybe we should throw in the boot loader,
> too.  I think those together plus the initial ramdisk should be enough
> for most Linux users.  They can grab auxillary things like binutils and
> rpm from Extras.  ~_^
> 
> Manual system bootstrapping is k00l.

Bootloader? Think "boot disk"! :)




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