Greetings, Opps, I accidentally first sent this to the Red Hat lists group.
----- Original Message ----- > Happy new year to everyone in advance. Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora > Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora > Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a > explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since. Explosion, huh? Let's check. According to this Fedora wiki page (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions), there are "roughly over a hundred distributions based on Fedora". Then it links to a distrowatch search page (http://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Fedora) from which I get 41 distros listed. The vast majority appear to be either dead (no new releases in 1 or more years) or primarily CentOS-based... which is very much Fedora-downstream based but significantly different than Fedora. ADIOS Linux Boot CD, last release 2006-05-04 AnNyung LInux, last release 2007/03/19 ASPLinux, last release 2008-12-12 AsteriskNOW, last release 2009-04-02 (really CentOS-based) Bee Linux, last release 2009/01/05 Berry Linux, last release 2010-03-17 [still alive!] BLAG, last release 2008-07-22 Boston University Linux, last release 2006-08-23 (really RHEL) CentOS, really RHEL-based ClearOS, really CentOS-based Ekaaty Linux, last released 2009-05-14 [still alive! Brazil] Elastix, really CentOS-based EnGarde Secure Linux, last release 2008-12-10 Fedora, sure... Fedora is Fedora-based. :) Fusion Linux, awaiting first official release Honeywall CDROM, 2008/04/24 IDMS Linux, 2009/05/31 K12Linux, last release 2009-02-04 (fedorahosted project) Kororaa Linux, last release 2010-12-25 [still alive!] Linpus Linux, last release 2007-12-25 (commercial and questionable) Linux XP, 2009-11-09 (seems to be RHEL-based now) Magic Linux, last release 2010-05-18 [still alive, Chinese, appears CentOS-based] MythDora, last release 2010-04-17 [still alive] Network Security Toolkit, last release 2010-10-07 [still alive!] Niigata Linux, last release 2007/10/09 O-Net, last release 2008/09/15 Ojuba, last release 2010-08-06 [still alive!] One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) [Now SoaS respin] Openwall GNU/*/Linux (highly custom, not really Fedora-based) Phayoune Secure Linux, last release 2008/01/03 (really Linux From Scratch?) Red Flag Linux, last release 2009-01-08 Red Hat Enterprise Linux, A given Rocks Cluster Distribution, last release 2010-11-11 (really CentOS-based) SME Server, last release 2010-08-21 (really CentOS-based) SuliX, last release 2004-12-16 TFM Linux, last release 2010/06/11 [still alive!] trixbox, last release 2009-03-27 (really CentOS-based) Userful Desktop, last release 2008/08/11 (commercial, more Ubuntu now) VortexBox, last release 2010-12-30 [still alive!] Xange, last release 2010/10/08 [still alive!] Yellow Dog Linux, last release 2009-06-30 (really CentOS-based) One that should be listed as well is Omega. Counting those up, there appear to be about 11 or 12 that are still alive and actually based on Fedora. Many appear to be primarily for non-English users or in the commercial space... and very few of them actually seem to have been started after "the end of 2008" when the remixing tools made it much easier... and begs the question, why isn't Fedora getting more traction among rebuilders? I do have my own personal remix (MontanaLinux) so I joined this mailing list. Fedora is my personal favorite distro, being a Red Hat Linux user starting with the 3.x series, and I really like the four F's. I still haven't bothered to learn how to make custom RPMs for my remix and sloppily just copy over a few package provided files post build (from generic-logos). TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _______________________________________________ remixes mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes
