On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree with most of the above but I don't really see that this, AOS or a > > minimal (minimum?) install should be any different, and even the Amazon > > image should only add EC2 stuff on top of that so should be able to include > > this .ks and add a few pacakges and what ever scripting is needed for the > > ec2 images. > > The problem with the whole AOS/jeos/minimal OS idea is that it's a > race to the bottom. There's this whole sub-culture of "let's see just > how tiny we can make it because *clearly* it's easier to add things > than remove them" when the end result of that is just a kernel and a > shell. > > I don't know, I just don't find that interesting or useful[1]. I'd > rather actually have utilities and the things I'd expect to find on a > Fedora system and not have to play games downloading packages for ages > and paying the bandwidth charges to do so as well. > I'm kind of with you on that. I don't think the smallest / tiniest footprint is as important as a known starting point. The funny thing is that anything beyond that is more subjective. The example I'd give is what editor to include, vim/emacs or joe. -Mike
