On 15 August 2006, at 11:33, David Zeuthen wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 07:50 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
My point was that we don't yet do this by default which means the concerns still apply to any default case for Fedora.
Perhaps what the world needs is a derived Fedora Core distribution tailored for the desktop. Same packages [1], few patches [2], just different behaviour out of the box more suited for the desktop.
We already have a "Desktop" option in the installer. I propose that that option configure things differently, instead of just juggling packages differently.
Certainly a lot easier trying to explain the powers that be ... things like it's easier for servers admins to
chkconfig --level 345 network on chckonfig --level 345 NetworkManager off
instead of asking people installing a desktop to do
chkconfig --level 345 network off chckonfig --level 345 NetworkManager on
as the latter category of people is not really UNIX savy.
Doing a derived distro for the desktop would allow us to care more about the desktop without wasting time educating other stake holders in Fedora that we need this or that change for the desktop to work well.
Maybe the desktop needs a break from the rest of the distro. Just a thought.
David[1] : well, all the daily crob jobs like updatedb etc. plus much more would have to go :-)
[2] : maybe that glibc patch to reread /etc/resolv.conf so we don't have to run bind for NetworkManager in the default install :-)
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