Re: Proposing a great/good/stupid? Idea.

From: Omar Baqueiro (obaqueiro_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:24:36 +0000

The basic idea stands in creating a LiveCD, with only the necessary
packages you want and maybe with only the modules for the drivers you
need. And then , if later you need any other package you can download
it via apt-get (or its corresponding GUI).

Here I am thinking in a easy to use web site, to enable beginners to
download his Linux CD, in a sort of centralized way. Maybe, with
accounts in the site/portal, the user will be able to save her LiveCD
configuration.

Now, I think one difficulty will be how to "install" the packages so
they are ready to run in the LiveCD, this could be tackled by making it
a non-liveCD (it must be installed), but creating a install CD which
will install the selected packages and drivers.

You can look it as the inverse of gentoo, the highly customizable linux
distro, unlike it, this distribution will be focused to the people who
does not want to mess with configuration.

John Hasler wrote:
> Omar Baqueiro writes:
>
>>That would be great dont you think?
>
>
> Why do you want to create a CD when you can download and install packages
> at will from the Debian archive? 

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