From gdk at redhat.com Thu Mar 31 19:25:39 2005 From: gdk at redhat.com (Greg DeKoenigsberg) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:25:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora Live CD project "kick off" Message-ID: I'm Greg DeK. You should all know me by this point, as I've likely contacted each one of you about your interest in an official "Fedora Live CD" project. Why? Aren't there plenty of Live CDs out there already? Well, yes, there are -- and even some that are based on Fedora. But we think that Fedora-branded Live CDs are still important for a few reasons: 1. Everyone else has one. :) 2. It's an ideal low-risk strategy to allow people to find out what Fedora is all about. 3. It's an ideal place for community contribution and development; the technical barriers are well-understood, and the community has already taken the lead in creating Fedora-based Live CDs. And in this collaboration, we at Red Hat have an opportunity to grow closer to the folks who dig our stuff. === So. To get the ball rolling, how about some introductions? I'll start. I'm Greg DeK, community relations manager for Red Hat. I work on the Fedora Extras project, act as legal go-between for the Fedora project, and do a bunch of other stuff. Some of my goals for this project: * Build robust tools for building Fedora-based Live CDs, and putting these tools into Fedora Extras. * Create Live CDs from these tools, based entirely upon content in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras, for official "blessing". * Distribute these blessed Live CDs far and wide, through whatever clever means we can come up with. --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan Red Hat Summit ] [ New Orleans ] [ Learn. Network. Experience Open Source. June 1/2/3 2005 ] [ (And Make Your Boss Pay For It.) [ http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/ From sgrubb at redhat.com Thu Mar 31 19:54:27 2005 From: sgrubb at redhat.com (Steve Grubb) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:54:27 -0500 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora Live CD project "kick off" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200503311454.27333.sgrubb@redhat.com> On Thursday 31 March 2005 14:25, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > So. ?To get the ball rolling, how about some introductions? ?I'll start. Hello, I work on SE Linux and the auditing framework for Red Hat. But before I joined Red Hat, I was building a distribution for use in an ISP setting. I had taken FC2.5 and applied 200+ patches and wrote a build system. I was struggling with the idea of how to do the installation - I wasn't a fan of anaconda since its in python and I don't write python code. I hit upon the idea of distributing the build as a Live CD. This way if someone hacks our machine, we just hit the reset button. Upgrading the machine to a new OS just means ejecting the CD and rebooting to the new media. I searched around the internet and ran across Basilisk Live CD. I did a little work with Dirk Westfal to get the Live CD creation process documented in a script. This way it is reproducible. I created the Live CD's for that ISP's linux distribution and it all worked. I have recently integrated the scripts with the Rookery Build system so that people can create Live CD's easily. The Live CD kit can be found at: www.web-insights.net/rookery. You can use pre-built rpms such as Fedora's. I am actively working on the scripts to make them better. If no one else has Live CD creation scripts available, I'd like to offer this as a starting point. My goals is to help with the technical side and help nail the issues down. That's about the extent of it. -Steve Grubb