Fedora JeOS?

[Bryan Kearney]

Please take a look at thincrust.net. We have been looking at some tools 
which are necessary to make it easier to create,deploy, and manage 
virtual appliances. One of these items, is a tailored version of the OS 
(aka a JeOS). What you will see there is a trimmed down kickstart file, 
but we are interested in investigating other changes which will be 
appliance friendly such as removing bare metal only modules, and 
including items like the vm-ware tools.

There are also conversion tools, configuration engines, and a whole 
backlog of items which we would love help on :).

-- bk


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:41:32PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I just read about SLES JeOS and Ubuntu JeOS on the register here
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/novell_sles_jeos_beta/
>>
>> With all the effort that was made for slimming down Fedora for OLPC I
>> would think we're in a pretty good position to do something similar.
>> Is there a JeOS planned, or even a SubProject planned for something
>> like this? I quick wiki search doesn't reveal anything but something
>> like this with all the virtualisation going on would be cool.
> 
> Unless I am wrong, there is already a minimal install spin. But it is
> not the same idea than OLPC, since it is exactly the same than classical
> fedora, just with the minimal set of packages installed. It is true,
> however that OLPC helped removing 'dependency bloat', but some people
> already cared.
> 
> It should also be mentionned that doing a spin (unless it has changed), 
> though not very well documented is very easy thanks to pungi.
> 
> Last think I'd like to mention is that due to how pungi works (and still
> if nothing changed) some bloat is currently unavoidable, since the
> packages used by pungi/anaconda have to be there, and it includes
> packages and dependencies that should not be in a minimal install,
> but it is a known issue.
> 
> --
> Pat
>