Fedora and the System Administrator

Bill Anderson bill at noreboots.com
Thu Oct 2 15:26:42 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:40, Miguel M wrote:
> Bill Anderson wrote 2003-10-01
> 
> >Well if you need no support from RH ....
> >-> Buy as many licenses as you feel you can, you can even use these on
> >your priority production machines for the support aspect
> >-> Download the SRPMS[1]
> >-> Use an installed system to build the SRPMS into a distro, since they
> >are GPLed.[2]
> >-> Deploy the GPL version to your other systems, "branding" it a "Common
> >Operating Environment"
> >There is a project already underway on making a system to build an
> >installable release from the SRPMS.
> 
> Thank you very much for you ideas Bill!
> 
> It's good to read at last a smart solution to the
> problem instead of "change Linux Distribution", etc.
> 
> Do you know the name (or better yet the URL) of
> that "installable release from the SRPMS" project?

I'm on this list:
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Sorry, don't recall the website ... wait one ... google returns this:
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/zid/software/unix/linux/rhel-rebuild.htm

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