On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:02:46PM -0700, Jed Donnelley told me: > Redhat patches. Ideally this would be a shared effort (e.g. DOE?). There > is an effort to do a Linux distribution being led by some folks at LBL > (e.g. Greg Kurtzer, also cc'ed): > > http://caosity.org/ > > However, again that's more of its own distribution, not an effort to track > Redhat. It seems to me that your position with Fermi Linux is closer to
My initial intention of cAos was to become a new distribution, but I have had various people in the community request a slightly different path. We are now _considering_ having the base cAos-1 system fully compatible with a RHEL2 base, and cAos-2 to be RHEL3 compatible. By compatible, I mean that we will be using the same source rpms as Red Hat distributes for the EL base recompiled on our supported architectures (presently i686 and x86_64). On top of this we will maintain community code. There are still _many_ details to be worked out as these ideas are still young. So in a nutshell, we may be releasing a rebuilt base of RHEL that is completely open in a packaged form (ie. ISO and network installers) and maintained. As I said, we are still considering this, and it will change a much of our initial goals and current build infrastructure (not to mention complicate many things like newer package dependencies). We are very open to thoughts and comments. Greg -- Greg M. Kurtzer, CSE: Linux cluster specialist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Contact: O=510.495.2307, P=510.448.4540, M=510.928.9953 1 Cyclotron Road #90-1116, Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.lbl.gov, http://scs.lbl.gov/, http://lug.lbl.gov/ Email: GMKurtzer_at_lbl.gov, Text: 5109289953_at_mobileatt.net rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
