On 16/01/14 04:58, Andrew Z wrote:
> I guess im missing something tonight.
> So back to my question - why not to have a group of scientific apps in
> installer ? Whats the advantage of having a separate iso for the  os?
> Say in fedora the scientific apps will be latest git versions and on el level
> - production quality.

It most likely  has to do with limited space on the DVD images.  You can only 
squeeze in a certain number of packages, depending on the package sizes into 
an image.

So to avoid making many ISO images for download, as most users would normally 
only need one image, special interest groups would then require two or more 
images (unless you have a networking functional during install).  With the 
Fedora spins you get everything for a specific interest groups on separate 
images.  And the result is that you you usually only just download one image 
and (hopefully) get exactly what you want instantly.

But I'm just thinking aloud, I might be wrong.


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kind regardsm

David Sommerseth