Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >> I only made a minimal list of patterns - and now want to open a new >> discussion on what kind of patterns we should have. >> I can add everything I find usefull - but please tell me what you find >> usefull ;-) > > Without having thought a lot about it - the initial selection by > patterns/groupings is meant to give the user a system with a set > software suitable for the primary purpose(s) of the machine being > installed. > > So what are the typical main roles of an openSUSE system? > > Desktop > | > +--- Desktop for/with multimedia > +--- Desktop for development > +--- Desktop for office/backoffice > +--- etcetera
I added for now - and did this only for KDE, GNOME will come later - a generic KDE desktop pattern and a few sub patterns: * KDE-BASIS * KDE-Devel * KDE-Edutainment * KDE-Games * KDE-Help * KDE-IMAGE * KDE-Internet * KDE-Multimedia * KDE-Office * KDE-System * KDE-Utilities > | > Laptop > +--- (not sure how to divide this) I don't know either. > | > Server > | > +--- Fileserver > +--- Internetserver (DNS, web etc.) > +--- Database > +--- Directory > +--- Firewall, network server > +--- etcetera I have now: * Directory (LDAP) * Fileserver * Mailserver * LAMP * XEN * Internet Gateway > | > [other roles?] Development - not sure how to structure this. > > This is only a proposal - I really just wrote it up in five minutes. > Maybe it's entirely in appropriate. > > Maybe the selection is 1-2-3 step: Primary qualifier, secondary > qualifier, plus add-ons (things you might want to do regardless of > which type of system): "Experienced User", "Kernel development", .... I don't like Experienced user - this should be split into several patterns... > Primary and secondary qualifier could fit into one page/window in a > tree-style display as the above, and going to the 2nd window for > add-ons could be made optional, such that new-bies or non-techies would > have a fast-path, whereas techies and/or experienced users would still > have the option of a detailed selection etc. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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