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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