packages to retrofit to workstation

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 07:04:44PM -0700, Les Howell wrote:
> 	I am currently running the FEL spin of f20.  I am going to upgrade to a
> later version, probably F22, by the save users and reformat process.
> However in the rush to cloud/workstation, FEL spin no longer appears
> anywhere at this time.  I currently have listed all the programs I use

Desktop spins can now be found at <http://spins.fedoraproject.org/>,
and spins which focused on collections of software for a purpose - like
Electronic Lab - are now at <http://labs.fedoraproject.org/>. However,
Electronic Lab is not. This isn't because it was kicked out or
anything: it's because no one who cared about it was around to made
sure it worked.

> 	You may lambaste me for not posing this stuff as a question or even
> just as a rant, but losing FEL was not good, and the other spins from
> people who had solved the issues required to get a system to be a master
> development station in an area of study were apparently thrown out with
> the old bathwater so to speak.  All of this is a sad loss for Fedora,
> and even a cash loss to Redhat eventually if they go the same way.

No; nothing was thrown out. No one made it happen, so it didn't. If you
want to make it happen again, though, AWESOME.



-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader