rpmfusion based spin

[Michel Salim]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stewart Adam wrote:
>>
>> That sounds fine - I think maybe a DVD spin with all the rpmfusion
>> packages would be useful as well for offline installs.
>>
>
> My experience (with xfce, games and other locale specific spins) is limited
> to the Live media spins. I haven't looked into Pungi much. If anyone else
> wants to help by maintaining a dvd spin, I would appreciate that.
>>
>> This is thinking way ahead, but while we're on the topic of spins do you
>> think it's fair to say we should respin once every 2-3 months? That
>> means we could have (roughly) the gold release + 2 respins along the way
>> per release of Fedora. Until DRPM support gets into the build infra, I
>> think this would be a good thing to do since another really annoying
>> thing for users is having to wait 4 hours for a large DVD iso to
>> download, then after installing they find they need some 150 updates!
>
> Yeah, we should be able to generate images very easily. Testing can be a
> problem since updates have before introduced regressions that affect the way
> the installation works (or does not for that matter). I hope others can help
> with that.
>>
>> Just to be on the safe(r?) legal side, maybe we should preinstall
>> packages from only rpmfusion-free but have the rpmfusion-nonfree repo
>> enabled.
>>
>
> This is what I am going with as of now.
>>
>> freefusion sounds good, but I think the name might be a bit misleading
>> if we enable or preinstall nonfree packages, or users might ask about a
>> "nonfreefusion" spin.
>
> I looked a while back and realized freefusion.org is unavailable as well.
> Who wants to name the baby?
>
Total Fusion. But that sounds a bit unprofessional. Fused Hat?

Though an RPMfusion companion CD with a user-friendly installer is
probably a more appropriate short-term goal
.

-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/