Dropping Gimp from the live cd

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Wed Aug 5 13:50:38 UTC 2009


On 08/05/2009 03:37 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:00 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> On 08/04/2009 09:51 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>
>>> This has been proposed independently, on the grounds that it is not a
>>> very good fit for the live cd audience anyway (where we probably at most
>>> need the occasional photo touch ups), and its UI is somewhat
>>> unconventional.
>>>
>>> There is probably not going to be any alternative to this step, due to
>>> the hard size limits, but I'd like to give people a chance to comment
>>> first, anyway. So, comments ?
>>
>> Can you please define the audience of the Live CD? It is the disk we
>> usually handle to people coming at various events to advertise Fedora
>> and honestly I don't feel comfortable spreading discs with no useful
>> applications on them.
>
> But we didn't remove the useful application: firefox is still in :-)

So i take the target audience of this spin is people using applications 
in the "cloud" (web services)?

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