Le 23 juin 07 à 17:23, Yen-Ju Chen a écrit : > On 6/23/07, Isaiah Beerbower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Yen-Ju Chen wrote: >> >>> On 6/22/07, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I might suggest using something like NetBSD or FreeBSD for the >>>> LiveCD >>>> in future though, since it's much easier to start with a simple >>>> system and add things than it is to start with a complex system and >>>> remove things. >>> >>> I agree with you. >>> A smaller distribution is better for us. >>> Maybe we can work with GNUstep LiveCD ? >> >> David said that the Linux philosophy was "Pile on as much crap as you >> can, and hope it works." I'd say that the GNUstep live CD follows >> this >> religiously. > > We don't need to ship as much as GNUstep LiveCD, > but at least it is a working system which we can build on top > and remove most of the stuff we don't want. > But other system, like FreeSBIE, may be good, too.
When the choice of Ubuntu as LiveCD basis was made in April iirc. According to Nicolas who studied the problem (he discarded GNUstep LiveCD in the process), Ubuntu LiveCD has the following advantages when you compare it to other LiveCD options: - easy to customize - support in-depth customization - decent documentation I would add the following points: - Étoilé main dev platform - in future it's probably going the LiveCD which offers the best hardware support (perhaps not true now) if you consider Ubuntu seems to be on the way to become the number one distro Based on a personal taste I would prefer a LiveCD based on DragonFlyBSD LiveCD (only 80 MB) or may be another BSD. But I think it's really not worth the investment. When Étoilé LiveCD will be released (really really soon :-), it will be in fact entirely generated by a script which takes care of everything and offers a built-in test mode. You won't have to download/compile/customize anything like Ubuntu LiveCD, GNUstep or Étoilé itself ;-) Ideally I would like to set up the script on a machine in order to create automatically a test LiveCD on weekly basis. Recreating the same kind of flexibility with another LiveCD base sounds unproductive to me. May be in another year or two things will be different or someone else will take over LiveCD maintenance. For Étoilé LiveCD, it's important to note that most of the issues comes from Étoilé itself rather than the LiveCD base. Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
