Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:36:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: [....]
My 'dream' OS has always been one where the base install was extremely minimal - just enough to install the rest over the network. Then there would be a way that anyone could 'publish' their installed list of repositories and packages and anyone else could duplicate that machine's setup just by picking that list from a set of choices with the installer dealing with the hardware differences for you. This would eliminate most of the need for custom rebuilds and respins - at least for anyone with network access, and in my opinion the optimal combination of many thousands of packages is something that deserves to be be crowdsourced.
But, so far no one has done it and whenever the discussion of modified CentOS respins comes up the developers have seemed pretty lukewarm to the idea, as though it would devalue their brand.
Such an OS, or release of an OS, would be mighty welcome to those of us with early notebooks/netbooks/whatever (such as the EeePC 701).
A minimal install CD was discussed a while back, but it never got past the discussion stage...
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-November/003639.html