-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What about my laptop that I use for server testing and therefore have almost all servers installed, which I also use for multimedia purposes. I think it would be better to have mandrake just focus on getting 1 good distro out, instead of 3 or 4. Rather than have multiple sub distro's I like the idea of having one distro with all the options. The distrobution itself doesn't chose what I install, I do. If I want multimedia I install multimedia apps and kernels, if I want server I install server, but if I want both I don't have to mix and match from different CD sets, or go compiling. The reason I chose mandrake above all others is really nothing more than their excellenct choice of packages in the distro. The guys at Mandrake seem to package almost every title I use, and that saves me a lot of compile time.
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:27 pm, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Andi Payn wrote: > > Provide, in addition to the 3-CD distribution, a "mini" version that > > provides just enough to get you up and running and install other > > packages. You could download, say, a 150MB ISO for English, or a 180MB > > ISO for some other language (if there were people interested in > > maintaining a mini-distro for that language), instead of 2GB with > > everything. You'd have a basic KDE desktop only, everything needed to get > > on a LAN or cable/DSL connection, all of the packaging tools, the core > > development packages, and some of the setup/configuration tools, but few > > applications, no servers, etc. > > I've thought of creating separate sub-distros for various uses. For > instance, there could be a Mandrake Laptop Edition, with a kernel and > pacakge set optimized for laptops (possibly with fewer servers), a > Mandrake Multimedia Edition (for A/V work) with multimedia kernels by > default and a selection of packages that would normally be in contribs in > the main distro. Each of the 9.2 editions would be compatible (ie you > could take a Standard Edition package and install it on a Laptop Edition > install) and stem from the same Cooker process. > > Levi Ramsey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPmdfqxFHZPcobeHxAQJ95gQAoe9Ii7mB+DgVTWuM5NcGM9FssItOHUK9 QH6kVsm5B7jjJ7bSF8hHVl3sGhgqtEGN7zPd1LDWWu8qmZLL3sd58hpBj7L7geYg DA5aamhHmigZXfme+6nkOqkmqORSNGYQcaQ3yvBf31CY2z2f43OLXjz83uo9c17a eMX4LSn5nkg= =43IS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
