Suggestion Next Release

[Diego Escobar]

2008/3/21, Diego Escobar <dezone24 at gmail.com>:
>
>
> Hi:
>
> I have a suggestion about the default software for Fedora:
>
> First: In Latin America most part of people does´t have a fast Internet
> conection, and for this reason is difficult to install new software by YUM.
> Second: An important point that experts evaluate on a S.O. is "ready out
> of the box" and you supose how many changes you have to do to leave Fedora
> ready.
>
> With this ideas my suggestion is to include many software by default on
> Fedora (Especially in Fedora LiveCD)
>
>
>    - OpenOffice
>    - Linux Terminal Server (tsclient)
>    - Vino
>    - Yumex
>    - aMSN
>    - Fedora Frog (Easy front-end)
>    - Nautilus (always use browser by default)
>
>  And why not? we can do easy including by default the most common
> repositories for Fedora:
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>
>    - Livna
>    - Freshrpm
>
> I hope my suggestion will be taken into account. Remember, this idea is
> designed to do Fedora more competitive and more easy for the final user.
>
> Regards.
>
> Diego Escobar
> Fedora Ambassador for Colombia
> Fedora 8 Kernel Linux 2.6.24 + Gnome
>


Hi.

First, thank you for your responses. I understand about legal issues
including some packages or repositories on Fedora. And I understand why
Livna is not included. (Because is not official as others parts). But for
most part of people is mandatory to have those packages. So, trying to do
easy for the final user can we do our official "community" repository? Can
we do our official "Fedora Frog" to simplify the installation for
common programas? (I believe there are no problem because most part of that
sofware can ba downloaded without problems by the user).

Also, I will response some things:


   1. Yum is working good... but if it could be faster...(Especially
   solving dependencies) nobody will unhappy.
   2. I m understand too, the space problems on LiveCD. But how can the
   other distros to include that software by default?
   3. Abirwod and Gnumeric are nice, but we are talking about do Fedora
   competitive and OpenOffice is the way. Users needs a suite as powerful as
   Microsoft Office.
   4. Talking about Yumex and Pirut, I think that Pirut needs a new face.
   (Check other distros). By other side, I dont know why, but Yumex works
   faster than Pirut and provides a face similar to Synaptic.

Thanks to Igor Pires for the idea of Spin. If the only way is create a spin,
I will so interested working on that for Colombia.

Please, consider this as a "suggestion" thinking in final users. They are no
interested in "official, unofficial" and they are no interested in read "how
to enable repositories", They wants a S.O. ready and complete for the PC.

Thanks.

Regards.

-- 
Diego Escobar
Fedora Ambassador for Colombia
Fedora Release 8 (Warewolf): Linux Kernel 2.6.24 + Gnome 2.20
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