Poll: Customized Fedora
Adam Voigt
adam at kotisprop.com
Fri Mar 26 18:29:36 UTC 2004
I think it's a good idea, especially if you could do visual aspect
changes as well (custom installer, desktop environment, backgrounds,
icon placement, menu's, etc.).
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:20, Adam T. Gautier wrote:
> I had the need to build custom installs of Fedora. So, I have developed
> a series of python scripts that greatly reduce headache of building and
> maintaining a custom distribution. Obviously I just use Anaconda and
> it's utilities to produce the distribution. But, to me, even with lots
> of scripts to automate tasks such as package dependency resolution and
> comp file generation the real problem is assembling the packages from
> around the Internet and starting from pre-built solutions.
>
> I was curious if anyone would like a service that could easily produce
> custom Linux distros. I did some searching and there seems to be a
> defunct company that offered for $250 + $/hr to produce a custom Linux
> distro, I think that was a bit too high a price. I was thinking of a
> webservice that would allow the user to choose packages from various
> repositories around the Internet to build a distro-spec. This distro
> spec would be public to all who wanted to start from that point and
> customize their own distro. To build the distro a GUI client would be
> downloaded and installed that downloads the distro spec and assembles
> the packages on the local HD, customizes images, allow for custom
> packages, etc...
>
> I was thinking that this could be a subscription based service
> $10-$15/year which allows a user to download and create as many distro
> specs as wanted (probably some limitation like, user can only have 5
> distro specs in development at any one time, A user would publish the
> distro to the world to free up space). The pricing is just to cover the
> costs of hosting and bandwidth (big bandwidth hog). My estimates are
> for a break even at 25 users/month @ $10/year or 17 @$15. Anything,
> above that gets pumped into development which will all be open-source
> anyway. I am not thinking this is a million dollar idea because of the
> small market, I would like to get some consulting out of this so I can
> quit my real job :)
>
>
> The features that I could build into the service in about 6 months are:
>
> *.) Website to host system
> 1.) Full RPM package library to choose packages from
> 2.) Distro spec rating system
> 3.) Pre packaged distro specs such as:
> email server distro:
> windows file server distro
> CMS distro
> Gaming system distro
> ...
> 4.) expand to other distros like Mandrake, Suse and Debian
> 5.) Include support for apt packages
>
>
> If I choose to do this project it will be Fedora based in the beginning
> so that is why I am posting here. I just wanted to get some feedback on
> the idea, I could have this service test launched by end of April since
> I already have most of the pieces developed for myself.
>
> So what does everyone think?
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Adam Voigt
adam at kotisprop.com
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