On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:05:39PM -0400, Hedemark, Magnus told me: > I, too, am trying to learn RHL enough to roll my own distro. It seems to me > that the fedora announcement is another step towards dumping the consumer > distro and investing all R&D into the RHEL lineup. While RH claims that > Fedora is a community run distro, it is under RH's leadership (an > organization that has no real experience or credibility in running community > projects). > > It seems that many of us here on this list have similar goals. i.e. an RPM > based distro that uses yum & kickstart, remains stable, is well maintained, > has a long life cycle, etc. Do we have enough in common to pool resources? Please check out cAos (http://caosity.org/). We already started, and are approaching a beta release. We have a fair amount of support, but are not making any real formal announcements until the beta is released (possibly in another 2 weeks). In a nutshell, think of it as a system architected similiar to redhat, but with a community presence like debian. If there are any other people thinking or already working on a distro project, please contact us so we can leverage off of each other. And just to keep this an on-topic post, cAos package management uses RPM and of course,... YUM! Greg -- Greg M. Kurtzer, CSE: Linux cluster specialist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Contact: O=510.495.2307, P=510.448.4540, M=510.928.9953 1 Cyclotron Road MS:50C-3396, Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.lbl.gov, http://scs.lbl.gov/, http://lug.lbl.gov/ Email: GMKurtzer_at_lbl.gov, Text: 5109289953_at_mobileatt.net
