they could have done that... calling their distro as AERH. however, the copyright issues of RH says they should not be linked to any distro whatsoever... they can't even call it "Customized RH".
I know. I was exaggerating the simplicity. Heck I could "build my own distro" [not a distro per se but a configuration I like] just using mkkickstart.
What BL seems to do is package a lot of products into the RH system. This is a *sane* way of doing things. Why go through the drudgery of making all those design decisions?
My point was -- building a distro of one's own "for the sake of having one's own distro" is pointless. Originality? non-starter: build your own kernel then we'll talk about originality.
IMHO if you want customization ("I want package this-and-that so I want my own distro") you just build off an existing distro, e.g. my mkkickstart example. I think BL did the right thing. But considering it's 95% RH, maybe they shouldn't call it BL, but rather AERH (ASTI-Enhanced RedHat) or something like that.. :)
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