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It's not even in the same league. A fedora spin is very difficult, cumbersome and far more trouble than its worth. (Unless you're doing an official spin). Revisor makes it a little more palpable, but it's buggy as hell (I've not been able to get it to work, not even once.)

From the screencast this looks easy as pie, but I'll reserve my final judgment for when I try it.

Fedora Unity have been doing respins for quite a while. The Revisor tool makes it possible to this with hardly any trouble at all.

PCtech used revisor to create an 11CD install set because although Fedora 7 could be obtained as an installable LiveCD and then packages added over the network, some people didn't have the bandwidth or a DVD, so needed the CDs.

I guess you hit the bug where the installer installed an i586 kernel instead of an i686 one. That is bound to create problems when messing with drivers. Did you install Fedora recently? Then you could have used a recently updated respins instead. That would probably have avoided this bug.

Running non-repository software with SELinux set to enforcing mode is bound to create problems, unless the application is SELinux-aware. The easiest solution is to set SELinux to permissive mode. This mode has it enabled, but not interfering with your programs. It just logs accesses that it would have prevented if set to enforcing mode.

1. Include Suns JVM.

Could happen. As you said, it's finally been released under an open-source license. Not sure about patent status, though.

2. Nvidia drivers
3. play DVD's MP3
4. Flash

Not going to happen. Fedora has a policy of including only open-source, Free with a capital F software that is not encumbered by patents. NVidia drivers and Flash aren't open source. DVD and MP3 playback are covered by patents.

5. Update the ISO's every so often

There's a group called Fedora Unity that does this. Check their site for Re-spins.

Fedora, at least, has community-submitted "Respin" discs that include updates (http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/torrents .) I seem to remember hearing about an APT-based tool for doing something similar on Debian-esque systems too.

It sounds like you might be interested in the re-spins generated by the Fedora Unity Project: http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins.

Very useful, and I wish them success.

Oh, wait... it's available as a LiveCD. I'll give it a try when Bittorrent is finished, then. :)

Simply try Fedora Unity. They provide updated DVD images.

Use Fedora Unity for respins including all updates.

I think you missed that fact that this is an unofficial project... i.e. Red Hat didn't make the decision to issue the respin.

As far as whether things work or not, once you run the updater, there should be no difference between a system installed with the standard FC5 discs and a system installed with the respin. In theory, anyway.

It's not an incremental release. It's Fedora Core 5 plus all updates as of the time the ISOs were created.

In theory, if you were to take two systems, install one from the stock FC5 disc and the other from the respin disc, then run the updater on each, both systems would be identical except for your config choices.

The difference is that one system only has to download updates released since the end of May, while the other had to download updates since March. Both of them end up being Fedora Core 5.

(As far as naming is concerned, it's not an official Fedora release, so Fedora Core 5.1 wouldn't make sense. http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins/faq )