[Rule] Whither RULE?

[C David Rigby]

On 8/23/07, Phil Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
>
> David,
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 19:27 +0800, C David Rigby wrote:
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> .
> .
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> > Suggestions:
> >
> > OK: the obvious one, which is the reality check: RULE/slinky has
> > outlived its usefulness on all fronts, and should be retired. NOTE:
> > this is the point where everyone is supposed to vehemently insist that
> > I am quite mistaken.
>
>
> Besides the original, major (worthwhile) goal for RULE I think there is
> also a (much smaller) potential use for installing minimal guest systems
> on Xen machines.


Thanks Phil. I remember this point coming up a while ago. Perhaps it was you
that suggested it then? Regardless, I agree that this is a good example of
what slinky could do.

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> .
>
>
> >      1. Change our goals for slinky. Make it truly an alternate
> >         installer to Anaconda that has as it's goal an installation of
> >         Fedora that is even more minimal than the standard minimal
> >         Fedora installation. Or simply a lighter-weight installer for
> >         a full Fedora installation, which would look a lot like the
> >         Fedora Core floppy project described at
> >         http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm.
>
>
> This is also a bit dated now - from my point of view it would be good to
> have an up-to-date Fedora slinky . .
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.



Thanks
CDR

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