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Realm Linux Development
Realm Linux was created and brought most of the way to where it is today by students of NC State University. It is a backend server platform and workstation platform created by students to be used by students. Campus Linux Services would like to continue this tradition by having students continue to participate in this project. Specifically, we are looking for someone that would be willing to build and maintain Fedora Core or rPath based versions of Realm Linux or otherwise contribute to the project. If you are interested, please take a look at the documentation in the CLS Wiki and send some email to the Realm Linux Developer's List.
Todo List
We use Bugzilla for tracking of bugs, features, and todo items. Please take a look there first to find something to contribute to Realm Linux. If you'd like to report a bug please be sure to query the database first to see if the bug has already been reported.
Source Code
Realm Linux is developed under the GNU General Public License. All source code can be found in the CLS Subversion repository. Commit access may be granted by asking on the developers' list.
Current Beta Version
A development version of an rPath based kit is avalible from the rBuilder Realm Linux Project.
A rawhide tree intended for the next RHEL based version of Realm Linux may be avalible as a Yum repository. The baseurl is here.
Planning
I like to maintain a list of future options where Realm Linux could be headed in the future. Almost instant replacements for RHEL is one of the free RHEL rebuild projects. The best rebuild project appears to be CentOS.
There's always the Fedora Core project. At this point in time I do not want to base a production Realm Linux kit off of FC because of the very short product life cycle and the stability of the product. The Fedora Legacy project does not provide sufficient support to extend the life cycle.
Realm Linux rPath Port: A new startup company called rPath is building new technologies for package management, state management, and creating "off-by-one" distributions. This has already shown to be a vast improvement to RPM and centrally managing large install bases such as Realm Linux. I am very much looking forward to having a Realm Linux distribution based off this technology. See the Conary Wiki.