will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Tue Jul 10 07:25:17 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 10 July 2012 00:02:16 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:12 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > This lines up pretty nicely with live installs, by the way, which
> > currently make up somewhere around half of all installations. 
> > And when
> 
> Well, there's an obvious counterpoint there...*only* half of all
>  people pick live images to use for installations, despite the fact
>  they're a smaller and more convenient format. Did you consider the
>  possible reasons why half of all people continue to choose to
>  download the DVD (even though it's somewhat tricky to find), and
>  the likelihood that 'I want to do things like installing multiple
>  desktops' might be one of the reasons?


Another point. I do several 100 Fedora/Windoze dual boot installs 
every year. These are from one locally downloaded source set of files. 
How do you include these in your statistics of 50/50.
 
Tony
> 
> > you do a live install, you don't get a choice of installing
> > multiple desktops.  You've either made the choice of what you
> > want when you downloaded from the website, or when you decided
> > which to boot from the multi-desktop DVD.
> >
> > - Chris
> 


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