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[Rickey Moore]

Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote: Les Mikesell wrote:

> (a) fedora had a "seriously-minimal" install that was just
> enough to get yum working and (b) things that are almost-rebrands
I did suggest on fedora-devel a year or more ago that "Fedora Core" would perhaps be more flexible if it really did mean 'Core', ie, was a
minimal functional packageset, and there were onionshells around it
based on more extensive packageselection.  But in the end the problem is that with 'fullblown' package configurations that are suitable for
desktop use, you can't really reach down into even ten times the memory footprint possible with a Busybox-style implementation, so Fedora will not stretch into machines that would like a "seriously-minimal" implementation.

Sounds like one heckuva idea. Why not just update the core-utils to a minimal run level, and update the rest as needed? How much could get broke? A little? a Lot? It would sure circumvent the concerns of those with a smoothly running Fedora 3, into Fedora 5, maybe with a couple of hiccups. 

<waves hands wildly> I vote for this... Red Hat, wouldn't this be better for the large users as well? Why didn't I think of this? <g> I mean you could darn near yum this thing, and use a boot floppy instead of 4 CD's worth.

Sound idea <tip of the baeball cap to Andy's general direction> Raul? 
Ric




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