Alpha Core Directions

Bob Taylor brtaylor at sanfelipe.com.mx
Tue Dec 21 19:02:33 UTC 2004


In message <E8477402-534A-11D9-9675-000393D74D9E at grouse.net.au>, Mike Barnes wr
ites:
> 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.

Good news!

> 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.

I use my Alpha as a workstation.

> 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.

I would *love* to do this. However I have a *very* slow and expensive 
connection. I'm hoping for a satellite installation sooner than later.

> Target for 0.92: complete install set on no more than 3 CDs. 
> Suggestions on methods for achieving this are welcome.

Start with the packages Red Hat ships?

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 Bob Taylor             Email: brtaylor at sanfelipe.com.mx

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