Re: distro requirements

On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:08 am, der.hans kindly 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 think this is a great idea.
>
> 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

I would add, it has a strong, active user forum somewhere for later
support.

> ###
>
> * probably should be requirements
> ^ subject to number tweaking
>
> Anyone want to start a thread like this for hardware requirements?
>
> [1] Apologies to Alexander and Dennis as I know they hashed about
> on some things a couple of months ago and this might be part of
> what they covered.
>
> [2] Note the random sig that came up for this email...

Do you really have random sigs, or are you joking. If you do, how do
you do that??? -Siri Amrit

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