Fedora Mini

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Apr 6 11:21:52 UTC 2005


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I am curious if anyone thought about starting some sort of "Small Server"
> fork of Fedora. I figure it's not something that is a pure fantasy,
> considering that Spot manages Aurora all by himself. Come to think of it,
> what forks and derivatives of Fedora do we know?

There have been tools like miniconda. I've been down this path a bit and you
hit a single fundamental near-insoluble problem - up2date/yum/rpm. They burn
resources and need some major rework at the rpm level - work that nobody 
afaik is assigned to do (I suspect we are talking full time engineer on 
such work).

apt + dpkg on the other hand sucks in lots of other ways but works. 




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list