On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > Add, delete, replace RPMs under RedHat/RPMS. > > **** Branding your distribution > > As it stands, if you modify the stock Red Hat distro, it's > > probably a good idea to brand it with a name other than "Red > > Hat". > > > > Once you pick a cool, new name, you can rebrand by installing > > the anaconda src RPM, hacking the source, changing all references > > to "Red Hat" to your new name, rebuilding that RPM, and replacing > > the stock anaconda RPM with it. Details to follow at the end for > > the more ambitious. > > > > There was a fairly lengthy discussion about this matter on this list > very recently. You'd do well to read it. please, dear god, i was part of that in the early phase, and i don't want to start it all over again. i have every intention of adding a section on how to re-brand a custom distro to give it a new name and remove all copyrighted material, as a recent poster pointed out. let's not go there, for everyone's sake. :-) rday
