On 9/8/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: > Karen Tung wrote: > > me at tomservo.cc wrote: > >>> We welcome your comments and suggestions on the above proposed feature > >>> list for our first official release and beyond. > >>> > >> Custom branding. That is replacing the logos, the graphical side bar (the > >> stuff on the left) of the installer application, make sure that the > >> branded items in text can be replaced by the DC. That's the sort of stuff > >> needed for people starting to create their own distros. Custom branding is > >> a big thing in that area, because people want to see their own name on > >> their distro. > >> > >> -mg > >> > >> > > Thank you for your comment. We will add custom branding to our list of > > desirable features. > > Depending on our resources, we probably will not be able to provide this > > feature in > > the Spring 2008 release. We will keep it in our feature list for the > > future release, however. > > > > It's not clear to me that this needs to be a specific feature. IMHO > branding should be supplied in packages dedicated to the purpose, and if > that's done then it's just a matter of selecting the desired package. >
Is the disto constructor aimed at distro makers(those who make distributions for large section of the community) or the users who want to create their own custom/minimal OS base. If its the former, then your suggestion is right. If it's the latter, then you cannot expect the user to learn how to create packages. The solution here would be to create another utility that takes various inputs (Name/logo/etc) and generates the package. The better option would be to integrate this (at least minimally) into the distro constructor. So creating a whole new distro is just a matter of clicking Next>Next>... and selecting various options. Add a "Built on opensolaris" somewhere in.. I'm looking forward to the distro constructor project (as I'm sure many others are). Branding (even minimalistic) would be a very attractive feature. I've looked a bit and haven't found any linux tool that does this (other than RH revisor and Knoppix remastering projects). "Another great feature in Opensolaris" ~2c Anil PS: All this of course, assuming the "latter" from above. > Dave
