[Fedora-livecd-list] What I want to do...

[Rahul Sundaram]

dhumphre at simulation.com wrote:

>I am interested in building a Live CD with a pretty minimal X windows
>install.  I don't need many bells and whistles, but I do need nvidia
>OpenGL drivers and C++ runtime libraries.  My intent is to actually boot
>from compact flash using a CF IDE adpater.  I read about an audio distro
>of Linux being setup that way to avoid having noisy hard drives in a
>studio setting.
>
>My company sells a software product that produces real time OpenGL
>displays and we are lookng to build an embedded linux platform to deploy
>it on, using a small form factor motherboard, nvidia graphics card and
>touch screen LCD.  The primary application would be for displays for
>vehicle simulators.  Other apps would include wall mounted PC control
>systems and people prototyping new flight displays for aircraft.
>
>I am pretty familiar with Red Hat and Fedora based distros and not very
>familiar with Debian. So Kadischi looks cool to me even though Knoppix is
>further along.  Our software already supports FC2 & FC3, so FC4 should be
>easy to do and I'd prefer to stick with what we know already.
>
>We want the user to be able to run a standard Linux distro and then just
>use some scripts to ftp/scp files over to the embedded box, which would
>ideally have no keyboard and mouse and no X Windows manager running (or a
>very light one).  So it'd be good if that distro was pretty mainstream
>like Fedora.
>
>I'm just in the getting hardware stage, but I hope to start building a
>live CD image in the next week or so.
>
>Darren Humphrey
>  
>
Awesome. This sort of things is what kadischi is enabled to do. Keep us 
updated on your progress

regards
Rahul