[Yum] Survey of Use

[Greg Kurtzer]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:05:39PM -0400, Hedemark, Magnus told me:
> I, too, am trying to learn RHL enough to roll my own distro.  It seems to me
> that the fedora announcement is another step towards dumping the consumer
> distro and investing all R&D into the RHEL lineup.  While RH claims that
> Fedora is a community run distro, it is under RH's leadership (an
> organization that has no real experience or credibility in running community
> projects).
> 
> It seems that many of us here on this list have similar goals.  i.e. an RPM
> based distro that uses yum & kickstart, remains stable, is well maintained,
> has a long life cycle, etc.  Do we have enough in common to pool resources?

Please check out cAos (http://caosity.org/). We already started, and are
approaching a beta release. We have a fair amount of support, but are not
making any real formal announcements until the beta is released (possibly in
another 2 weeks). In a nutshell, think of it as a system architected similiar
to redhat, but with a community presence like debian.

If there are any other people thinking or already working on a distro project,
please contact us so we can leverage off of each other.

And just to keep this an on-topic post, cAos package management uses RPM and 
of course,... YUM!

Greg
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