Pre-Alpha patch for a LiveCD with GUI... What next?

Sdävtaker sdavtaker at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 09:50:09 PST 2008


Cool Sascha :-)
I just posted about this 1 or 2 days ago in the SOC project ideas thread.
Want to mentor this one? ;-)
Damian

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>  :Hi all,
>
> :
>  :this is probably as good a moment as any to come out of the forest with
>  :this. The patch at
>  :
>  :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~swildner/nrelease_gui.diff
>  :
>  :adds some code to nrelease/ to build a LiveCD with xorg and so on
>  :(currently, only the xorg metapackages and fluxbox are added). In order
>  :to build one, you need a local dir with the pkgsrc binary packages (see
>  :below).
>  :
>  :The following commands should then do the trick:
>
>     It looks reasonable, though the package copy has to be tightened
>     up a bit I think.
>
>  :...
>  :installed, so a system can be quickly setup by the installer (which will
>
> :cpdup /usr/pkg). Or should it be a more specialized set of tools? Or
>  :even as many packages as possible (Live DVD?). Etc., etc.
>  :
>  :Before continuing on it, I'm really interested in people's input so
>  :don't hold anything back, please. :)
>  :
>  :Sascha
>
>     I think this is an excellent time to work up a DVD build and to
>     add various 'flavor' extras.  So, e.g.:
>
>         make installer gui gui_extras release dvd
>
>     (All 'dvd' would do is generate a dvd compatible image for burning to
>     dvd instead of cd).  I did a quick perusal of what I have on my
>     workstation:
>
>     * X
>     * Firefox
>     * Linux emulation
>     * Open Office (linux version)
>     * fvwm2
>     * xpdf
>     * freetype2
>
>     I'd also suggest some image editing tools like gimp, and maybe the KDE
>     gui suite.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon at backplane.com>
>



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