Re: GNOME 2.12 Live CD contains beta packages + suggestion

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Marcus Bauer wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:31 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
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> > Op Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:27:50 +0200, schreef Jaap Haitsma:
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> >    
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> > > some are heavily patched with features (E.g. the "Add To Panel" dialog) 
> > > which are not present in stock gnome. 
> > >      
> > I already suggested to revert that customization to the default in a
> > mail to Marcus, not in the least because the dialog you mention is not
> > translated (at least in Dutch it isn't), and GNOME translations are at 100%.
> >    
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> Let's keep in mind here that this is only the second iteration of the
> GNOME liveCDs. We are still collecting experience here.
>
> Currently it is based on ubuntu and ubuntu releases one month later thus
> their CD is during the release of GNOME still under heavy development.
> I'm investigating a bit into the direction of completly building the CD
> instead of remastering the ubuntu one. But I'm not sure if that isn't
> simply overkill. Building liveCDs from bottom up is kind of voodoo
> magic ;)
>  
If you mean building it entirely from scratch rather basing it on a 
distribution, then yes otherwise there are several nifty tools that 
makes this process pretty easy to do. A good list is available from 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveCD

regards
Rahul