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"James M. Rogers" wrote:
>
> Here is an opportunity for an enterprising person to create an addon
> product that adds all the old stuff back into the redhat distribution.
>
> Actually, people could start entire lines of CDROM's that add specific
> functionallity for specific "niche" users. 3D modelling, Animation,
> Graphics Design, Data analysis tools... The line of products are limited
> only by your imagination.
>
> "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> >
> > >> My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it
> > >> or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least
> > >> continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in
> > >> powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still like
> > >> to be able to download it all in RPM format and install it.
> > >
> > >Another chance to switch to multi-CD distribution missed. RedHat must do
> > >something about this or someday we'll see TeX and Emacs being removed in
> > >favour of KOffice and KDevelop.
> >
> > I *highly* doubt that they would do that. Too many UNIX heads
> > out there rely on that.
> >
> > I do agree that they should go to a multi-CD distribution soon
> > though, the only thing then is that either the second CD would
> > only be partially full, or else it would be packed with a tonne
> > of crap just to fill the CD.
> >
> > My preference for now would be for RedHat to keep the OS itself
> > as a single CDROM, but to offer an "addon pack" with the stuff
> > that was removed, plus other stuff. Possibly "powertools" has
> > free space for the stuff that was removed? Although I don't
> > think the HOWTO's should be considered "power" anything. A new
> > CD name would be needed I think. Perhaps a RedHat CD containing
> > 500+ megs of LInux documentation off the web, including the
> > RedHat knowledge base, and other such sites?
> >
> > Just some ideas to toss around...
> >
> > Take care,
> > TTYL
> >
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