Re: Marketing & promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

Luis,

Actually rBuilder can create livecd images, I haven't created them for
Foresight yet, but we definately want to.

--Ken

On 2/22/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Paul Cutler <silwenae gmail com> wrote:
> > LiveCD: According to this wiki page (
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveMedia) it says:  "It is not
> > a target to do an official version for GNOME 2.18".  If we do:
> > LiveCD:  I think that's a great idea.  I've been reading through the
> > documentation for customizing an Ubuntu LiveCD at
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization/6%2e06
> > -- I'm going to need some help on this one.  That wiki page was written for
> > Ubuntu 6.06 / Dapper, and if we choose to use Ubuntu, do we want to update
> > an Edgy LiveCD or customize a Feisty LiveCD, which already has 2.17.91 and
> > should have 2.17.2 soon.  I was also looking at Reconstructor (
> > http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/).  I believe looking
> > through the Wiki, that Luis Villa led the last LiveCD created for 2.12 -
> > Luis, if you have any pointers or advice to share on how that process, I'd
> > love to hear them..
>
> Hey, Paul-
> Marcus Bauer is really the person to talk to about liveCDs;
> particularly for his work on scripting and localizing the whole
> process. I had not seen reconstructor; just from a quick skim it looks
> like it would be very good for the basics of a liveCD. (Though an
> ideal liveCD would work from stock GNOME, and not patched GNOME like
> Ubuntu ships.)
>
> I generally worked with an unstable Ubuntu release, specifically
> because (as you mentioned) that included a very up-to-date GNOME. You
> might also want to look at combining the debian 'live-package' tool
> and http://www.0d.be/2007/02/11/the-coup-du-zeppelin-project/
>
> Sadly, AFAIK rpath still doesn't create liveCDs; otherwise their tools
> would be perfect. (One could argue that a self-hosting image that
> doesn't require rebooting the host PC would be even better, of course.
> I leave that to others to noodle on about.)
>
> Anyway, I can answer at least some questions, I just don't have a
> whole lot of time to help out right now. Sorry :/
>
> Luis
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