Fedora Board Recap 2007-JUL-31

[Manas Saksena]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On 8/2/07, John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >   * For Fedora 7 we built tools for people to spin their own distro--why
>  > hasn't this caught on more?
>  >     * It isn't '''fun'''
>  >     * It is difficult because of artwork and logo trademark issues
>  >     * Maybe the tools are not as easy to use as we thought
> 
> (d) It is a niche activity.

I see two things here...

I see the value of creating custom Live CDs. And, maybe people are
creating them, just not advertising them. Especially, when distributing
and advertising runs afoul of trademark issues.

The second thing is that the kind of distros that can be done with the
current set of tools is rather limited. To get real benefit, I think you
have to enable users to build custom/derivative distributions where the
derivative distro can make source level changes to packages, add new
packages, etc.

OLPC is doing this today. Fedora-ARM is relevant only if it is able to
do this.

There is not much needed from Fedora to support this -- and it does not
really change much of what Fedora is. But, by explicitly supporting the
activity, Fedora can increase its developer/user base. And, as ideas
mature in those derivative projects, some of them can be adapted back
into the main project (along with the developers/users who care about
it in the first-place).

Manas