Proposal: fedora-distributor-list

[Thomas Chung]

This is an excellent example why we should have fedora-distributor-list.
We can discuss the official Fedora distribution and custom Fedora distribution
as well as HOWTO which will benefit not only CD-ROM vendors but System
Administrators.

Thomas Chung

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From: Paul Nasrat <pauln at truemesh.com>
To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:09:19 +0100
Subject: Re: Proposal: fedora-distributor-list

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 06:27:13PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Thomas Chung (tchung at openwebmail.com) said: 
> > > See this link for more information - 
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
> > 
> > One thing you may be interested in is the trademark guidelines at:
> > 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/
> 
> Apologies if this is a rehash from when the original Red Hat(R)
> discussions went on.
> 
> One of the things which confuses me is that it's possible to go two
> different install routes to get the the same place, yet one can be
> Fedora and one can't - at least from my own reading of this.
> 
> Take for example:
> 
> 1) Fedora Core installed via kickstart off official media
> 2) Update Fedora Core errata/updates via yum/up2date/apt/hand
> 
> Then if I produce a modified single disk kickstart installer (not for
> distribution) which has Fedora updates merged in, do I then have to
> remove any fedora trademarks from that installer image.
> 
> If I read this correctly that could be construed as modification,
> although the components are all under the Fedora(tm) code.  I've a
> feeling this could be called Fedora Core.
> 
> I then go on and add a non-fedora package using yum/up2date/apt if I 
> do this after install, I still have a fedora system just with a 
> third party package.  If I do this in the kickstart image I'd say 
> that then probably ceases to be Fedora.  Which if I want to produce 
> kickstart images for a large number of internal servers then I have 
> to ensure that the Fedora(tm) is removed from the kickstart?
> 
> In which case I can simply configure up2date/yum as part of the
> kickstart and on first boot install the non-Fedora package, it seems 
> as if I'm making a kickstart image and want to be able to say to my 
> co-worker, it's Fedora I have to jump through hoops in order to be able
> to to that.
> 
> Paul
> 
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