fedora LTS , why not?

Tosh toshlinux at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 09:06:38 UTC 2009


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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