Submitted by “Purpose-built Fedora distributions, called ‘spins’, are a recent addition to that community in an attempt to reach additional users. The idea is to use tools like Revisor to create a custom collection of software that work well together for a particular set of tasks. This collection can then be installed or run from a live CD, providing an easy means to have the right collection of tools immediately, rather than after a lengthy yum install pass.”
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.
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?
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.
it’d have to be a third party spin, because fedora itself doesn’t ship proprietary drivers.
Rpath’s Rbuilder-online is currently the best “lego” of this kind.
Rpath’s Rbuilder-online is currently the best “lego” of this kind.
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.
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.
Same here. lost me to debian and ubuntu