On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:40:13AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/18/07, Nikolay Ulyanitsky lystor@lystor.org.ua wrote:
May be a good idea to create howto on CentOS Wiki of building discs process to give users possibility of creating CentOS based distributions for highly specialized purposes?
While I like the idea of folks using centos for custom projects and everything, I'm not sure I'd call this a 'good idea' following the oracle fiasco. It's easy enough to create kickstart files and otherwise customize installs. I'm not so sure I like the idea of centos becoming a meta-distribution to help spawn other distros. This dilutes the community and divide the effort and momentum behind centos.
I dunno that I'd feel too concerned about this. Anyone with the wherewithal to create and sustain development of a distro will be able to figure out all these steps on their own no doubt. After all, you guys got CentOS going didn't you? :)
The average joe might be able to follow the instructions/tips and roll their own CentOS based distro, but I would be surprised to see it pick up steam unless they were truly motivated / competent in which case they probably wouldn't need the instructions in the first place...
I think it'd be interesting to have instructions available for at least replacing / upgrading the kernel on the installation CD's.