[Devil-linux-develop] Re: getting picky about what software is included? (was Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] UPnP enabled)

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> General question (not necessarily directed toward UPnP):
> 
> Do we need to start getting picky about what software is included?
> 
> One of these days in the not so distant future, the DL ISO is going to
> become too large to fit on a single CD.  In my experience it's much
> easier to reject software requests now, as opposed to removing software
> later to reduce the size. (at least we won't piss off people as much :)
> 
> Or maybe we don't worry about it, and when DL doesn't fit on a CD any
> longer we start building different ISO's?  (firewall edition, mail
> server edition, web server edition, ... stupid software edition :)  

As it is now I think the only way is to create different ISOs
as we already have stuff that should no be on a firewall but
are perfectly fine on some intranet server.

> Or maybe DL goes DVD-only after it surpasses the 650/700MB limit?

Looks like we are currently heading in this direction.

> As I said, I'm not picking on UPnP.  I haven't read about it yet, and
> don't really understand what it is.  This is just something I've been
> wondering about for awhile ...

I think we have to make up or minds about what Devil-Linux should
really be. At the moment it is some kind of "everything-and-nothing",
more like Knoppix but just for servers, not for desktops.

I'd really like to have a Devil Linux Firewall Edition that I would
use on my firewall.

So what are all the other people on this list thinking about how
Devil-Linux should proceed in the future?

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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