Marcus Moeller wrote: > 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. > Sounds like all you folks need to get together, start a "CentOS minimal install CD" SIG and get on with it :)