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

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Great to hear, Darren.  Let us know how it goes for you.

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 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
> 
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