[CentOS] Re: A few questions about remastering

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Dec 6 20:22:04 UTC 2007


on 12/6/2007 6:46 AM Mário Gamito spake the following:
> Hi,
> 
>> If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product
>> CentOS or use our logos.  You can say that the product is based on CentOS.
>>
>> I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions
>> of users right now and is totally free to distribute in an unmodified
>> form.  And it is MUCH easier to only distribute several updated packages
>> than all those plus all ours.
> Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd
> like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email
> server.
> 
> That's why I want to rebuild.
> 
I believe that SMEServer is based on CentOS and already smears itself full of 
qmail. And it has nice web-based configuration pages, too!

Maybe fork from there, and use a kickstart to prune or add things you want.

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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!




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