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