Chapter 2. Features

2.1. Installation Media
2.2. Installation Trees
2.3. Live Media
2.4. Reproducibility
2.5. Consistency
2.6. Flexibility
2.7. Graphical User Interface
2.8. Open Development Community
2.9. Plugin System
2.10. Extraneous Debugging
2.11. Smart Caching
2.12. Using YUM Configuration Files

Revisor allows you to build and customize your own Remix, Re-Spin, Spin or even your own distribution, based on Fedora and derivative distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.

Revisor builds installation media, live media, installation trees, cobbler distro's and profiles, virtualization images and more. We'll now briefly explain what each of these terms mean and what Revisor can (or cannot) do for you.

2.1. Installation Media

Installation media is what you normally use to install a system with. The installation media composed will allow you to go through the installation process, answering a number of questions (either manually or through kickstart), and ends up in a system running the distribution you install.

Composing installation media using the Revisor GUI allows you to choose the media (CD, or DVD), the packages to be included on the media (also called RPM payload).

Using the command-line interface, Revisor also allows you to choose DVD Duallayer and single- or dual-layer Bluray.