Am 29. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Craig White so:

> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 02:08 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > moin, moin,
> >
> > This email is meant to be the beginning of a collaborative effort.
> >
> > Yup, this is the original moin, moin wiki :).
> >
> > We need to decide what requirements we have for a distribution. After that
> > we can see about which distributions we'd like to support[1].
> >
> > I'm very tired right now ( and need to research a problem at work ), so
> > my initial list isn't so good. Sorry. I'll have to leave it up to the
> > list[2].
> >

> > Please make suggestions. Once we have a fairly stable and mostly agreed
> > upon feature list we can qualify distributions and then decide which ones
> > we want to have available as defaults at InstallFests.
> >
> > ###
> > distro requirements:
> > - we can install it
> > - package management
> > - secure ( e.g. no root-only distros )
> > - usable on intel/amd/ppc 200 processors^
> >
> >
> > good things to have:
> > - can do security-only updates*
> > - can do dist upgrades
> > - we have people who use it*
> > - available for x86 and PPC
> > - Live CD for hardware testing
> > - partition resizer that understands Linux and m$ partitions
> > ###
> >
> > * probably should be requirements
> ----
> indeed - why should installfest install distro's that there aren't at
> least 2 people on Plug list capable of looking at their system to answer
> 'specific' questions about that distro?

We should be able to handle that, but I guess it's good to note that if
someone supports us moving to recommending a particular distro they should
keep in mind that we'll need them to help us support it.

> good things to have:
> - pdf or html reference guide for configuration after installation

One that's useful.

> - user accessible tool for managing firewall

Yup. Helping set up a firewall is one of the things we should be doing.

> - gui tools for system administration (or else after install, put webmin
> on)

Admin tools. While GUI might be good, I don't yet want to set it as a
requirement. We might want to consider using webmin as they'll then have
the same admin interface regardless of the distro. Not sure how well that
works as the distros still have different features that need to be
adminned.

> Lastly - install should boot and be able to log on into gui, create
> normal user account and log into that account

Yeah, I presume we can provide a GUI environment. The requirement might be
that the distro uses X.org rather than XFree86.

ciao,

der.hans
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