From: Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
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.
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:35 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
From: Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
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.
If it were to be done ... it would be in addition to the current CentOS distros. Main-line centos would stay exactly as it is. Just be a LiveCD that contains all the current CentOS software at the time of it being built.
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