Per Jessen
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
I only made a minimal list of patterns - and now want to open a new discussion on what kind of patterns we should have. I can add everything I find usefull - but please tell me what you find usefull ;-)
Without having thought a lot about it - the initial selection by patterns/groupings is meant to give the user a system with a set software suitable for the primary purpose(s) of the machine being installed.
So what are the typical main roles of an openSUSE system?
Desktop | +--- Desktop for/with multimedia +--- Desktop for development +--- Desktop for office/backoffice +--- etcetera
I added for now - and did this only for KDE, GNOME will come later - a generic KDE desktop pattern and a few sub patterns: * KDE-BASIS * KDE-Devel * KDE-Edutainment * KDE-Games * KDE-Help * KDE-IMAGE * KDE-Internet * KDE-Multimedia * KDE-Office * KDE-System * KDE-Utilities
| Laptop +--- (not sure how to divide this)
I don't know either.
| Server | +--- Fileserver
+--- Internetserver (DNS, web etc.) +--- Database +--- Directory +--- Firewall, network server +--- etcetera
I have now: * Directory (LDAP) * Fileserver * Mailserver * LAMP * XEN * Internet Gateway
| [other roles?]
Development - not sure how to structure this.
This is only a proposal - I really just wrote it up in five minutes. Maybe it's entirely in appropriate.
Maybe the selection is 1-2-3 step: Primary qualifier, secondary qualifier, plus add-ons (things you might want to do regardless of which type of system): "Experienced User", "Kernel development", ....
I don't like Experienced user - this should be split into several patterns...
Primary and secondary qualifier could fit into one page/window in a tree-style display as the above, and going to the 2nd window for add-ons could be made optional, such that new-bies or non-techies would have a fast-path, whereas techies and/or experienced users would still have the option of a detailed selection etc.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126