From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I was looking at that :)
> Question is ... does it really serve a purpose?
> The purpose of the distro is to install on servers and workstations. A
> live CD doesn't do that. Knoppix is very good in this market, so I
> think the usefulness is limited.
Especially since there are already "Fedora Live" CDs anyway.
One of the reasons for RHEL is for a fixed, integrated tested package
set based on but beyond that of Fedora Core. If I want to start playing
around with a "customized" Fedora-based distro, then I'm just going to
go with Fedora itself, instead of RHEL (or CentOS).
> BUT ... one good thing it would do is allow you an easy way to see if
> your hardware works without downloading the whole shebang ... which is a
> positive.
"Fedora Live CDs" should do the same. Just line up the kernel version.
> We may look at doing this after CentOS-4.1 is done and I have some of
> the automated scripts working the way I want.
The more CentOS would get away from RHEL, the more I'd just do my own
configuration management from Fedora Core instead. I mean, I've built
equivalent APT-RPM repositories of Fedora Core by lining up the packages.
The reason why I like to use CentOS is so I don't have to do my own
configuration management of Fedora Core to get the same thing of RHEL.
It saves me a lot of effort.
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
