[glug-t] Custom distro..

About our custom distro thing, these are just a few thoughts about how
to add and what to add to our custom distro.. (btw, we also need a
name for this distro)

This discussion is a bit Fedora specific...

The two important things we need is multimedia and games.
First multimedia :
This can easily be achieved by bundling the rpms that we get with
fedora extras with our distro and making them selected by default.
This can be done by editing the comps.xml file, the same way we have
done for yum in Garnet-Zircon lan. Btw even during FC6 installation
yum is used the back end so the technique should be same.

Then games :
The two practical games in the spotlight are counter-strike and quake3
Counter Strike : We need to include the wine rpms by default for this.
Then all we have to do is run a simple cp command after the
installation at the firstboot configuration time. Or we could have a
custom script that does that and we can ask the user to execute that
after the installation.

Quake 3 : We need to install graphic drivers for this if the user has
a graphic card. The problem with graphic drivers is that we don't know
which graphic card he has.
What we could do is dmesg | grep nvidia (or ati) and we get a result
(that means the user has a nvidia or ati graphic card) we can proceed
to install the rpms needed for nvidia drivers (all this in the
firstboot of course). The problem with this is not all nvidia cards
are supported by the latest nvidia drivers. Some cards are in nvidia
legacy. So we will need to test what cards are in legacy and what are
not and then proceed to install the drivers.
After that the normal method : cp the game files and run a quake3.rpm

Continue this thread for further discussion....
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