Here is an opportunity for an enterprising person to create an addon
product that adds all the old stuff back into the redhat distribution.
Actually, people could start entire lines of CDROM's that add specific
functionallity for specific "niche" users. 3D modelling, Animation,
Graphics Design, Data analysis tools... The line of products are limited
only by your imagination.
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote:
>
> >> My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it
> >> or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least
> >> continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in
> >> powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still like
> >> to be able to download it all in RPM format and install it.
> >
> >Another chance to switch to multi-CD distribution missed. RedHat must do
> >something about this or someday we'll see TeX and Emacs being removed in
> >favour of KOffice and KDevelop.
>
> I *highly* doubt that they would do that. Too many UNIX heads
> out there rely on that.
>
> I do agree that they should go to a multi-CD distribution soon
> though, the only thing then is that either the second CD would
> only be partially full, or else it would be packed with a tonne
> of crap just to fill the CD.
>
> My preference for now would be for RedHat to keep the OS itself
> as a single CDROM, but to offer an "addon pack" with the stuff
> that was removed, plus other stuff. Possibly "powertools" has
> free space for the stuff that was removed? Although I don't
> think the HOWTO's should be considered "power" anything. A new
> CD name would be needed I think. Perhaps a RedHat CD containing
> 500+ megs of LInux documentation off the web, including the
> RedHat knowledge base, and other such sites?
>
> Just some ideas to toss around...
>
> Take care,
> TTYL
>
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