Re: [Xen-users] filesystem image of Fedora Core for Xen?

[Ted Hilts <thilts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric

Thank you for your positive remarks.

My response:
I think your project is the way of the future for products like Xen.

I would be proud to put your group's achievment on a server and make it 
freely available to all interested parties.  But I would only do this if 
your package  was compiled into Xen in the form of an Xen-based (your 
Dom  0 base) system so it could be treated as a COSI distribution or 
example distribution.   Also, I would also make the COSI distribution 
available on DVD.  

Apart from the above I have this digression;

I have been considering the use of installation DVDs as explained above 
as provided at some small cost and the money used to support Xen 
development efforts.  If this were to happen your group should get some 
kind of percentage in order to help your instititue advance in this 
project.  But I am not sure how to handle this and think probably the 
person or organization requesting the DVD -- freely provided -- would be 
encouraged to make the appropriate donations or whatever was in their 
means.  I don't want to be involved in the money game or caught up into 
legalities.  But I want very much to see certain kinds of Open (and 
Free) software products advance.  In my mind the giving of donations is 
just a voluntariy form of helping the best one can.  I'm only supportive 
as long as your groups efforts are non proprietary and conform to the 
GNU Open license and consistent with the Xen license.  Free (not for 
sale free) is desireable but not necessary.
Progress of this first day old proposal of a distribution project:

I am still waiting for volunteers to freely contribute their Dom 0 and 
DomU builds (with associated sources)  in a way suitable as an easily 
installable product with built in installation instructions.  Although 
it would appear that many think this project of making available Dom 0 
and DomU distributions is a neat way to go.  Actually, I expected a fair 
degree of "flack" but have instead encountered a very positive attitude. 
But talk is not the kind of action I am looking for.  Also, everyone 
that makes a contribution (in the way of creating an installable 
installation downloaded from the server) get's that particular 
distribution named after them and hopefully would maintain that 
distribution on the server I freely provide.  Please refer to the entire 
flow of email on this subject that sprouted from and more or less took 
over from the "filesystem image of Fedora Core for Xen" thread, which 
was unintentional, sorry.
Perhaps someone can come up with a new thread name that adequately 
conveys what this project proposal is all about.
Thanks -- Ted
PS: I'm of the persuation that all information on absolutely everything 
should be open and available to everyone but am willing to allow for the 
amortization of that cost of developing through the disseminating of 
that information.  I include in that NEWS, medical research, software 
development, and "virtually" every kind of information that progresses 
human evolution according to the Divine Plan. I don't believe in 
patents.  I don't believe in copyrights that put people in a possession 
on ownership over information.  Enough!

Michael McCabe wrote:

> I'm a member of a group of students from the COSI (Clarkson Open 
> Source Institute) that has been working on creating a special distinct 
> distribution for use in dom0.  We hope to have something available by 
> early next week.
> Mike
>
>
> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>
> > Mark Williamson wrote:
> >
> > > So you're proposing a special distinct distribution for use in dom0?
> >
> > sounds like it to me.  I vote for xentoo as the first distribution...
> >
> > --- eric
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