Fedora Targets

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >  
> >
> Not kidding at all.  Today Fedora Core is a 4 to 5 CD's. If a user wants 
> only the server packages or only the KDE packages they wouldnt know 
> which CD's to download. It isnt obviously labelled or documented. What I 
> am proposing is splitting up the CD's into specific targets. Fedora 
> Server, Fedora Desktop, Fedora Edutainment etc that is self hosting with 
> a base group that brings in compatibility between these different 
> targets but it would waste some space.. Th user who wants just a desktop 
> or a server can download a single CD. By default anaconda wouldnt offer 
> any  package selection and install everything in the CD which would only 
> offer a single default browser, single mail client, DE etc. A advanced 
> option during installation can allow you to do something thats similar 
> to the current setup that will allow user to select different groups 
> such as desktop, workstation, server etc. When clicking on a group that 
> is not provided within the current CD the installer would indicate that 
> additional CD's are required or alternatively pull packages from the 
> network (nfs/http/ftp ...).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rahul 
> 

Sounds like an interesting option to me.
How about:
CD1. Base desktop.
CD1. Server tools.
CD3. Office and Java.
CD4. Development tools.
CD5. KDE.
CD6. Extra snapshot.
etc

Gilboa