Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 18:58, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 18:03 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> <snip>
>> >
>>
>> What's the reason we promote these images or foresight linux instead
>> of live CDs/images of Ubuntu, Fedora etc?
>>
>> Jaap
>
> The GNOME live media has all downstream distribution branding removed -
> these live images are only GNOME branded.  There is no Foresight
> branding present.
>
> Ken starting putting these together 3 years ago after GNOME hadn't had
> any Live CDs created for a year or two.  The other advantage is that
> these are typically available day and date with GNOME's release (GNOME
> 2.28 is the first time we haven't had an image made in a while).
>
> The live images are created using rPath's build service and are
> available via the GNOME Dev Kit[1] and [2].  The GNOME Dev Kit was
> maintained by Ken (and now Zhang Sen) and automatically builds the
> latest GNOME from GNOME's git repo.
>
> If there are other volunteers who are willing to create live media and
> can meet the requirements above, there's no reason why we couldn't
> switch to a different provider.
>
> Paul
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDeveloperKit
> [2] http://www.rpath.org/web/project/gnome/
>
>
Thanks these sound as very valid reasons :-)

Jaap