Poll: Customized Fedora
Adam T. Gautier
adam_gautier at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 27 16:57:05 UTC 2004
>Out of curiosity, besides not being based on Fedora, what about LFS
>doesn't suit your needs?
>
>http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/index.html
>
>
I looked at LFS, GenToo and UltimateLinux. These all seem to fit their
particular niches very well. I want to base this project on more
established distributions, based on the following assumptions. I am
using LFS and GenToo as loose models:
1.) People would rather adopt one of the big four RedHat (Fedora), Suse,
Mandrake, and Debian.
2.) A customized version of the above distro's could be supported by
those companies. Just like I could install RedHat and then the
java*.rpm I have not voided my support agreement.
3.) Binary packages are getting better and can always be customized for
even finer grained control
4.) Basing this "redistribution" off of existing distributions will help
(however small) to keep linux from fracturing into individual systems
like Unix (please not flames on this, it my opinion).
5.) It would be possible to establish a solution set across the big four
distro's. Example: Linux Gaming Distro based on Fedora Core 1, Mandrake
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