(Apologies for top posting this intro.) This is the latest email I received from the Eeedora maintainer. Of particular note is the information on non-Fedora bits contained in the spin. Jon Nettleton is working on a similar spin, and I have sent some email to both him and Martin to see if we can get them together. -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Martin Andrews <Martin.Andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Eeedora in Fedora? > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:45:46 -0500 > > > Hi again Martin. Sorry it's been a while since I last wrote -- now that > > I've settled into my new job at Red Hat I wanted to make sure we keep > > the conversation going. > > I was at a financial conference last week - I'm just resurfacing. > > > Can you tell me more about the content in Eeedora? Is there anything in > > Eeedora that doesn't fit the Fedora guidelines? Is it all open source > > and redistributable? (There is in some cases an exception made for > > firmware, which we can look at if need be.) > > The only non-mainstream part of EeeDora is a mad-wifi binary module > contributed by Atheros. > I've included a script to pull in additional repos, but there are no > encumbered CODECs or anything like that. > > Otherwise, the whole thing is a spin built with the Fedora tools > (though I gave up on Revisor pretty early on, since it kept bloating > out the install). > > > We have a hosting area (source code management, etc.) that we can offer > > as long as the project is something we can legally distribute. We can > > give you your choice of CVS, SVN, git, or others I believe, and it would > > ease your worries about downloading. > > The bandwidth issue isn't wrt the code (which is SVN with Google Code > currently). > It's on the ISO / ZIPs, each of which are ~340Mb. > > > We'd want to get you an account and so forth, but we can start by > > looking at the questions above. Talk to you soon! > > And I hate to disappoint, but at the moment the EeeDora coding team == > just me. Apart from that, I've been paying attention to comments on > the eeeuser.com forums - and also Anderson Silva (~RedHat) has been > really helpful with with excellent suggestions. > > I'd welcome other people to contribute. One of my initial goals, > however, was to keep it small and beautiful / lean and mean. Which is > why I've been resisting (so far) calls to integrate (say) gdm. > > Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you. > > All the Best > Martin > :-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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