Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 10:47 +1200 schrieb Glen Eustace:
It would be great if the build environment and the result could be
totally independent. i.e. actually start with a clean slate (empty
CD :-) and add only those things one really wants. All the supporting
stuff used to manage the installation and the whole process e.g. python
and lots of others should only need to be present in the build
environment not the resulting CD.
I am looking at CDs for Kiosk-like solutions. It would be great to
simply drag across the kernel, networking and a browser, satisfy the
dependencies on that lot and leave the rest.
Have you heard about the "freedom toaster"? It was introduced in the
Go-Open series in Australia (an open source series sponsored by Mark
Shuttleworth:
http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/episode_3/what_is_hot/ (you can
also episode 3 on this website)
They produced something that is hardware and software and enables users
to just burn a distro like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. It's not quite
what you want, but it is also Kiosk style. The combination with hardware
is cool. A small linux inside and then maybe they have some number keys
and a key for submit and cancel.
Maybe the better process would be if Fedora itself is built with a
modular system that we also can use for creating a live CD. So Fedora
could be a very flexible distro 'by default'. This software then should
be distributed with Fedora so it gets more testing.
Does anybody know how Fedoras official CDs are produced right now? What
are they using as helper tools?
Thilo
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