Hi, >> 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). Re-Spins are yet possible. You can take a look at the LiveCD project: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ to learn how to spin a custom CentOS LiveCD. But please note: CentOS itself has a clear strategy which means upstream compatibility. Nothing more and nothing less. No focus on specialized systems (which does not mean you can create a custom spin for an specific purpose, e.g. a CentOS netbook spin) IMHO CentOS is not the best choice for latest consumer hardware nor the best desktop OS (please don't blame me for that Dag ;) Fedora already offers a lot of spins for different (end)use(r) cases. Best Regards Marcus