Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 23:51, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > language used to expose it must express what is happening.  We
> > could call it the "Useless" class if you didn't want anyone to
> > select it, though that would get a flood of mailing list questions.
> > "Bare-bones" has been suggested.  There's got to be the right name
> 
> "Bootstrap"
> 
> Its an absolutely minimal install you then boot to add other stuff.
> 
> It also happens to be precisely the package set a minimal installer needs
> for small machines for bootstrapping literally as the name suggests, and
> if bootstrap is sufficiently fittable on a single CD it makes Debian like
> 1 CD and network installs easier

And, it helps that you can get a booting system, with full console
access in a 40 meg ISO.

Debian's minimalist feel should start brushing itself onto
Fedora-minimal for instance. People with servers will like this (or
older machines even).
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