fedora LTS , why not?

[Adel ESSAFI]

Well,
I see that many of you point me to centOs. The idea is interresting.
However, why centOs is not as known as ubuntu. The main advantage in ubunti
(in my point of view) is LTS and codecs!  Why centOS is not a commercial
success?

regards
Adel

2009/3/20 Tosh <toshlinux at gmail.com>

> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>>
>> I was using fedora and redhat since 2000. To day, I can see that our
>> favorite distro is really very strong. However, I have done some
>> experience (short) with Ubuntu and I have liked to LTS concept (Long
>> Term support).
>>
>> My idea is to build a distribution that is based on Fedora at 100% with
>> 1. LTS
>> 2. with a very reduce number of packages
>> 3. with proprietary codecs and essentiel software (mp3, flash ) included
>> in.
>>
>> I know that the variety of the open source projects are making it's
>> power. However, I aim to build a distribution with only one software
>> from each catégory. That is, I have to choose between:
>> *  KDE and GNOME for the destop
>> * rhythembox , kaffeine, ....... as media player
>> * abiword or openoffice as office writer
>> .............................................
>>
>> Technically, I will maintain a repository  with a reduced number of
>> packages.
>>
>>
>> If I get positive feed back from this list, I can start working on this
>> project in july
>>
>> This distribution will be very useful for starter!!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Adel
>>
>>
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> first and for all I wish to expand on the current responses
> as you may kwow by now
> fedora - 9 months release base - 18 months support base
> centos/rhel - 4 years release base - 7 years support base
>
> I suggest you take centos and work from there, most of the work is already
> done for you, and you can maybe contribute to rpmforge or my new repo to
> increase the package set
> I hope to setup my repo this weekend, giving centos gnumeric and abiword
> and audacious (with mp3 support) as these are missing in rpmforge due to
> some dependencies that cannot be included at the moment in rpmforge
> or you could go with fedora epel
>
> imho, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, if you are not going to
> improve the wheel :)
>
>
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