Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

[Marcus Bauer <marcus bauer gmail com>]

On 7/26/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/25/05, Marcus Bauer <marcus bauer gmail com> wrote:
> > Hey, have I lately talked about KLA? :) Did I mention that they are
> > spreading out 50.000 copies to schools in France? They are two and a
> > half part time developers. There are no timely security updates.
> 
> I'd be embarassed if I were them, if what you say is true, and I would
> be absolutely horrified if GNOME did the same. We have a reputation of
> quality, and consciously attaching our name to an OS that we don't
> intend to support well (in all meanings of that word) is embarassing.

Yes and no. GNOME can't do it because they are playing in a different
league. But it is worth to look for a way to get onto the harddisk
once the CD is in the drive.

> 
> > My guess is that the average hackers wants as many people to use his
> > software as possible. That is kind of applause for the artist :)
> > GNOME does not need to become a distribution by itself it simply can
> > plug to something existing.
> 
> I'd be fairly happy if we can figure out a way such that an installed
> liveCD 'becomes' an Ubuntu install with very slight default changes at
> the first update. That's actually tricky ATM, because we remove many
> default Ubuntu packages that are wasteful, which means that Ubuntu
> might not consider such an install an 'Ubuntu' install, and be
> reluctant to support it. 

I think it would be surprising if nobody would like to benefit from
GNOMEs marketing efforts.