Alpha Core Directions

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

Dear Mike, & list:

The thing that nees the most work IMO, is the installer.  It is really not at
all clear about formatting a disk so it will boot from SRM.  That goes for
both the text and the graphical installers.

2.  Keep the KDE screensavers, all of 'em.  They're great!

3.  Selecting the "workstation" install option on 7.2 never neeeded the 4th
disk.  Perhaps you could retain that feature, putting the scientific, legacy
code, ham radio, etc. on the 4th disk.  The just leave a note to the effect in
the ISO download "readme" telling most users they won't need but the first 3 ISOs.

4.  KDE and Genome:  we'll never be able to agree on just one desktop.

5.   KDE games.  Keep chess, Xbill and shisen sho.  Does anyone play chromium
or Civilization?

I hope the next AC distro will keep the ability to serve UFS files.

My other suggestion is to take a rest, go to the beach and think about it a
while.  AC as it stands is as good a product as 7.2.  We all appreciate your
work. 

jn



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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Mike Barnes <mike at grouse.net.au>
To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:21:57 +1100
Subject: Alpha Core Directions

> Hi folks - got a bit of breathing space over the next day or so, and 
> thought I'd get some input for the early-next-year planned release 
> of Alpha Core 0.92, which should be a pretty major step towards 
> something I feel comfortable slapping a "1.0" release number on.
> 
> It's going to draw quite heavily from the Fedora Core 3 release 
> sources, but I really think it needs to be slimmed down quite a bit. 
> That's where some input would be welcome.
> 
> First up - am I correct in thinking that most users/potential users 
> would be using this on "hobby" machines? If so, is a focus more on 
> "desktop" than "server" functionality appropriate? I'm not talking 
> about dropping Apache or Samba or anything - but some of the more 
> esoteric stuff could go. Anyone's thoughts on this would be great.
> 
> The other side of this issue is what else would be good to include? 
> Pretty much anything that's in the Fedora Extras repository would be 
> pretty easy, provided there are no major issues beyond doing a 
> rebuild from source.
> 
> Speaking of Fedora Extras - maintaining a "contrib" of other 
> packages that we've just got compiled and ready to go would be a 
> really neat project for _someone else_ to do. I'd love to get to a 
> state where I can look after a tiny core build and someone else 
> tracked updates to things in the "neat stuff" category.
> 
> Target for 0.92: complete install set on no more than 3 CDs. 
> Suggestions on methods for achieving this are welcome.
> 
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