http://www.osnews.com/story/18657/Fedora_Reaching_Out_to_New_Niches Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:16:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?273486 http://osnews.com/thread?273486 Sounds OK, but I can't install a mailserver or SQL server spin yet. The current available spins are not *that* impressing, IMHO. But the idea is good and holds promise for the future. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evert) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273511 http://osnews.com/thread?273511 I'm looking forward to this one, as it would be very handy for testing computers before buying. Most Livecd's actually are, but this one would let me test the video card's functionality better. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (muep) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273531 http://osnews.com/thread?273531 it'd have to be a third party spin, because fedora itself doesn't ship proprietary drivers. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273536 http://osnews.com/thread?273536 Rpath's Rbuilder-online is currently the best "lego" of this kind. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (haizaar) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273537 http://osnews.com/thread?273537 Rpath's Rbuilder-online is currently the best "lego" of this kind. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (haizaar) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273538 http://osnews.com/thread?273538 One of the ideas behind tools like revisor is that YOU can make your own tailored distro which can perfectly fit your own requirements.
I'm in the middle of trying this out for myself as I have a set of components that I use on all my Server Installs. For example, I don't need OO, bind, a mailserver, Postgres etc etc. So far the results are quite good.

And yes, the kitting list will get published so that others can take advantage of my selection.
So why don't you try it for yourself instead of complaining about a lack of an exact fit for your requirements. As you say, it hold promise for the future. Why not be part of it? Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shotsman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273803 http://osnews.com/thread?273803 if fedora really wants to reach out to the new niche of having new users, they really should get in place upgrading to work and be reliable. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273849 http://osnews.com/thread?273849 Agreed. They lost me as a long-time user (to ubuntu) exactly because of this issue.

I would upgrade, and then spend hours trying to get everything working again. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bryanv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273876 http://osnews.com/thread?273876 Same here. lost me to debian and ubuntu Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments