Live cd solutions

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> 
> * What if to improve this "media perception" Fedora was to include some 
> sample material in ogg/theora format in the Live media? A tour video, 
> and some sample music would be terrific. The tunes are not THAT hard to 
> get, especially when we have at our disposal great sources like the 
> Linux Audio Users mailing list and website [1][2]. There are some great 
> tunes that are free to use shared through the list by the authors 
> themselves, a little note and an e-mail to the authors asking their 
> permission to include their material with the Live media/distribution 
> benefits us all (they get more exposure, we showcase free formats), and 
> the same goes for video files... These are a bit trickier to get right, 
> but there could even be a music sample package available links and notes 
> in the wiki, etc... I think this is a more proactive approach than a 
> reactive one.

This is already being pursued. See fedora-music list archives.

Fedora 7 Bookmarks will have links to Free content and we are looking at 
highlighting similar content in other places too. Fedora 7 based live 
images or USB disks planned to be distributed in Red Hat summit will 
feature free multimedia content. One of the reasons we don't do it in 
the default Live CD is because of lack of space.

> * Another thing I thought would also be beneficial is to include some 
> sort of "manifesto" right into the home directory as a sample document 
> in various formats: .abw, .txt, .ps, .pdf, HTML, etc. which contained a 
> "summarized" version of the release notes in a more "user friendly" 
> language (i.e less technical, more colloquial wording, not as thorough) 
> and explaining there (again being extra careful with wording to avoid 
> misunderstandings and not being legally pedantic) why closed formats 
> aren't being used in the distribution, and even give some pointers to 
> CodecBuddy, or how to get legitimate means to play these formats

I am already writing some content that would serve this purpose If you 
want to help please contribute.

> That I believe is what really makes a distribution "user friendly". The 
> fact that Fedora doesn't ship with proprietary software (driver or 
> application programs), 

We won't point to proprietary drivers. General user level applications 
are different from kernel drivers because of potential legal issues, 
debugging problems they induce etc.

Rahul