How would you shrink Fedora? [LWN.net]

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 3:44 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

Fedora should have only one CD, with the base system and the most commonly needed apps. It should load other apps from the network. Or it could work from the extra CDs as an option, using the network only if there's an update available, but there's no reason to force everyone to download four ISOs, and then promptly re-install 50 packages because of security updates. Even with BitTorrent, Red Hat is paying too much for bandwidth because of the way things are done now.

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How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 16:48 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Fedora should have only one CD, with the base system and the most commonly needed apps. It should load other apps from the network.

Yeah, it might be to Redhat's benefit if someone there installed Ubuntu just to see what it's like. They might change their mind about a few things.