On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Peter Robinson
<pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with most of the above but I don't really see that this, AOS or a
> minimal (minimum?) install should be any different, and even the Amazon
> image should only add EC2 stuff on top of that so should be able to include
> this .ks and add a few pacakges and what ever scripting is needed for the
> ec2 images.
The problem with the whole AOS/jeos/minimal OS idea is that it's a
race to the bottom. There's this whole sub-culture of "let's see just
how tiny we can make it because *clearly* it's easier to add things
than remove them" when the end result of that is just a kernel and a
shell.
I don't know, I just don't find that interesting or useful[1]. I'd
rather actually have utilities and the things I'd expect to find on a
Fedora system and not have to play games downloading packages for ages
and paying the bandwidth charges to do so as well.
I'm kind of with you on that. I don't think the smallest / tiniest
footprint is as important as a known starting point. The funny thing is
that anything beyond that is more subjective. The example I'd give is
what editor to include, vim/emacs or joe.
-Mike