Dear Colleagues,I have just published PAIPIX 7 (http://www.paipix.org) that is using debian-live. PAIPIX is main focused on scientific applications. Clearly it was only possible due to the excellence of the work of the debian-live team. Thanks!
There are some main concepts that I have added to the debian-live:1- The Debian-live image only has about one third of the packages. The Debian repository that goes with the DVD includes not only include the image packages but also all other ones that can then be installed either live or in an installed system (see PAIPIX menu or paipix-install command).
2- To achieve this the system runs apt-cdrom when booted live.Have a look at the scripts/i386/chroot_local-hooks/install.sh for the actual work.
The source code for all PAIPIX packages is available from the paipix repository, together with the compiled versions. The patches to the live-helper package are available in the paipix-helper package.
use: deb http://mirror.paipix.org/debian-paipix etch main contrib non-freeapt-get install paipix-helper and have a look at /usr/share/doc/paipix-helper (/changes) for all the scripts and coorrections that I have applyed to debian-live. They are applyed to live-helper_1.0~a22-1_all.deb that was checked out form svn.
Patches include avoiding the unionfs problems in /proc/self/exe that are important for example to the SUN java packages.
Please feel free to ask if you have any further question and once again thank you for developing the excellent live-helper,
António Amorim PS: I include bellow the general announcement: PAIPIX 7 the new integrated PAIPIXThe new PAIPIX 7 GNU/Linux keeps its focus on scientific software but drops the emphasis on a pure live DVD to integrate, in the same DVD, the installation, live and upgrade systems.
These solutions result form using the Debian official packages debian-live and debian-cd, making the development of PAIPIX more sustainable in the medium range. The new main use cases are:
LIVE: Starting PAIPIX in the live mode, one has access to complete system including KDE, Office and Development. In a second stage, the PAIPIX menu allows to install in memory all remaining applications. This approach is usable since a typical live session only explores a restricted subset of applications. It still allows you to try all the available software without installing it definitely it in the hard disk.
INSTALLATION: By starting PAIPIX in the installation mode one has access to the standard debian-installer system. The installer was configured (pre-seeded) to reproduce the complete KDE, Office and Development environment available in the live system with further access to all packages trough the PAIPIX installation menu. The DVD includes all binary packages necessary to the full system installation.
UPGRADE: As part of the entire system, the DVD includes a Debian-CDROM like repository that includes all necessary packages. This repository can be also be used to upgrade or install further packages in any Debian type installation. To upgrade an existing system one should use the apt-cdrom add command to add this DVD to the list of used repositories.
The PAIPIX iso images are available in English (PAIPIX) and in bilingual editions that support both English and one of the following languages: Portuguese (PAIPIX-PT), Spanish (PAIPIX-ES), French (PAIPIX-FR), Italian (PAIPIX-IT) and German (PAIPIX-DE).
PAIPIX 7 is based on Debian Etch (4.0) although all packages in the paipix repository are made available for sid(unstable), lenny(testing) and etch(stable).
PAIPIX is build both for 32bit (i386-686) and 64bit (amd64 – intel ET64) architectures. The 64 bit support, although newer, is is rather complete except mainly (in Etch) the browser Java and Flash plugins.
PAIPIX 7 is free (as in speech) software and results from a collaboration between the SIM Research Laboratory at F. Ciências, of the Universidade de Lisboa and the SEE-FUTURE spin-off. The source code for all PAIPIX packages is available from the paipix repository, together with the compiled versions. The patches to the live-helper package are available in the paipix-helper package.
As an aggregation of mostly free-software packages, you can only use PAIPIX at your own risk. The Author can not accept any responsibility on any problem or hardware damage or data loss that can result from PAIPIX usage.
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