On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 18:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:48, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > One of the issues though with doing this (grrr) is the Fedora Trademark. > > To do it - all the Fedora artwork legally has to be removed and > > replaced. > > Interesting - the equivalent to Centos but with fedora as the > base... > > However if all you really want to do is become the expert who > decides what 'everything' means for some set of people that > might care about your opinion, couldn't you do that by > publishing the output of some invocation of 'rpm -q' in > a format that could be used directly by anyone's yum to > load up the same packages? The idea is an ISO that is easily downloadable and only uses 1 CD (probably 2 if you want devel). The secondary idea is to respin every six weeks with updates. A kickstart file that does a network install would also work, except for updates, but there are too many times when for whatever reason a network install doesn't work (IE the pcmcia support was broken in anaconda for my laptop in FC5, making network install impossible). -=- As far as "become the expert who decides what 'everything' means for some set of people - that's not the intention at all. The intention is to provide a good base distribution targeted at LOTD that is good for new users and easy for OEMs to support. As you are aware, Fedora does not come with any support. So if Fedora is going to be installed by OEMs - it needs to have enough software that users can enjoy it, but not so much software that an OEM has to spend a lot of money in software support training because there are seventeen different applications that all basically have similar purposes, but different ways of going about doing them. Reducing the install base also makes it possible to target those specific applications for proper scrollkeeper support, and proper translations of the scrollkeeper documentation into other languages that are likely to be in the market for the product (IE Spanish and French for the North American market, add Portugueese and probably Italian for the South American market, etc.)
