How would you shrink Fedora?

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 6:00 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
In reply to: How would you shrink Fedora? by dlang
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

>> but saying that you wouldn't produce a distro that I would have any ability to use at home just shrinks your potential userbase.

why would you not be able to use a one CD distro at home with a 144k connection? the average package size i suspect is under 5MB.

>> also for corporate use, many companies want a local, static installation source so that they can be very sure that the Nth machine they build is exactly like the first

speaking as someone who works at a company that must install a free OS on tens of thousands of rackmount servers, any company that is trying to do this by CD is retarded. typically installs like this are done by cloning an image, for which tools already exist and are network-based. seeing as most 1U boxes do not have CD drives, its not clear what purpose the disc serves other than as a Mountain Dew coaster.

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