[SoaS] Testing liveinst in SoaS-3

[Peter Robinson]

Thomas,

> zyx-liveinstaller (now available by yum install in f13)
> gedit
> gparted
>
> and SugarClone
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone
>
> should be added to the soas spin ASAP

SOAS-3 is done. Any changes will now be targetted at SOAS-4.

zyx installer was not working and had been stated by the maintainer
that he no longer wanted to support it in Fedora and hence it was
dropped at the request of the maintainer. By the time it was fixed it
was well and truly too late to actually make the release with any form
of QA what so ever, we might consider adding it back in SOAS-4 if the
maintainer proves to be responsive again.

SugarClone as mentioned to you previously isn't packaged in Fedora and
until that point will never be included.

And gedit/gparted don't add anything to the ability to install. I
don't see what a GNOME text editor does to improving an install, and
everything that gparted can do all be done through the liveinst
install as that is what liveinst uses under the hood. The idea with
SoaS is to keep it simple. Its not meant to cover every base with 100s
of tools. Its meant to be able to put on a USB key with the possible
install. If you want 100s of options I would suggest people get the
Fedora DVD and install it that way where you get the 100s of options
and packages that you want. You could even install it to boot off a
Fibre Channel SAN if you wanted to :-)

Regards,
Peter