<div dir="ltr">Well, I see that many of you point me to centOs. The idea is interresting. However, why centOs is not as known as ubuntu. The main advantage in ubunti (in my point of view) is LTS and codecs! Why centOS is not a commercial success? regards Adel <div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/20 Tosh <<a href="mailto:toshlinux@gmail.com">toshlinux@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">Adel ESSAFI wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi list I was using fedora and redhat since 2000. To day, I can see that our favorite distro is really very strong. However, I have done some experience (short) with Ubuntu and I have liked to LTS concept (Long Term support). My idea is to build a distribution that is based on Fedora at 100% with 1. LTS 2. with a very reduce number of packages 3. with proprietary codecs and essentiel software (mp3, flash ) included in. I know that the variety of the open source projects are making it's power. However, I aim to build a distribution with only one software from each catégory. That is, I have to choose between: * KDE and GNOME for the destop * rhythembox , kaffeine, ....... as media player * abiword or openoffice as office writer ............................................. Technically, I will maintain a repository with a reduced number of packages. If I get positive feed back from this list, I can start working on this project in july This distribution will be very useful for starter!! Best regards Adel -- <a href="http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/</a> -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address BP 108, Bureau de poste Tunis republique 1001 Tunis Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 fax: +216 71 391 166 </blockquote> </div></div> first and for all I wish to expand on the current responses as you may kwow by now fedora - 9 months release base - 18 months support base centos/rhel - 4 years release base - 7 years support base I suggest you take centos and work from there, most of the work is already done for you, and you can maybe contribute to rpmforge or my new repo to increase the package set I hope to setup my repo this weekend, giving centos gnumeric and abiword and audacious (with mp3 support) as these are missing in rpmforge due to some dependencies that cannot be included at the moment in rpmforge or you could go with fedora epel imho, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, if you are not going to improve the wheel :) -- Toshaan <<a href="mailto:toshlinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">toshlinux@gmail.com</a>> - <a href="http://www.toshaan.be" target="_blank">http://www.toshaan.be</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/">http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/</a> -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address BP 108, Bureau de poste Tunis republique 1001 Tunis Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 fax: +216 71 391 166 </div>