What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Alfredo Ferrari]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Quoting Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com>:
>
>> monty19@ hotmail.com wrote:
>>> OK, here goes.  I'll probably have to duck and run for my life  after 
>>> this, although it's not my intention to upset anyone by any  means.
>>> 
>>> Personally, I think having separate ISO images for Desktop,  Developer, 
>>> Server, KDE, and whatever else is a pretty silly idea.
>> 
>> Agreed, especially if one uses programs from all categories.
>> 
>
> I also agree here. I love having one DVD to do it all. After all, when the 
> base install is on the system, it's pretty much a matter of using yum to 
> install what else you need anyhow....
>
> I think the whole point of spins are to make things easier for newbies - a 
> default install if you will that has the most common apps. This being said, I 
> would like to see a 'newbie' CD and a single DVD instead of a multitude of 
> other options.
>
> I install on 2 machines... One that does pretty much everything internet, and 
> another one for testing, asterisk, streaming DVB via multicast and whatever 
> else catches my fancy. It's great being able to do that from a single DVD.
>
>

+1

I install some 10+ different machines and none of them can be easily 
defined as a desktop/server etc. I typically use packages from all
categories, having one DVD is muuuch better.

                    Alfredo
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