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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 May 2005 08:10:58 -0500
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Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Troy,
> 
> 
>>Michael Mansour wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Just as a suggestion for future installation builds of SL, in Fedora when 
>>>installing the OS from CD's, they put in information like the following:
>>>
>>>***
>>>The website for Fedora, together with its latest version and any of its 
>>>updates, can be found on:
>>>
>>>http://fedora.redhat.com
>>>
> 
> [WINDOWS-1252?]> > Fedora’s irc channel is on irc.freenode.net with channels
> #fedora and 
> 
>>>#fedora-devel
>>>
> 
> [WINDOWS-1252?]> > Fedora’s mailing list is on [log in to unmask]
> 
>>>***
>>>
>>>while the Fedora graphics screens are shown during the install.
>>>
>>>Why not include similar information to this, but related to SL, during it's 
>>>installs?
>>>
>>>Michael.
>>
>>Because it's already been released :)
> 
> 
> That's fine, maybe on a future release?
> 
> 
>>But on a side note, Fedora also has to do that because all of their 
>>web pages and documentation actually point to RedHat.  So they had 
>>to put it somewhere.
>>
>>Troy
> 
> 
> Ignoring Fedora's requirements for now, you don't think since you're adding
> pics to the install procedure anyway (pics of cats etc), that maybe it's an
> idea to add something a bit more SL-related?
> 
> Michael.

Actually, I think it's a good idea, and it wouldn't be too hard.  It's 
just that we don't usually change the pictures after the initial 
release.  This is because we try to keep the update releases to as few 
changes as possible.  So I don't really see us doing it until release 
S.L. 5.0.

Troy
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