On 6/23/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Just to say, I still believe it's the best option for us. In addition to have the best hardware support, it's indeed fairly easy to customize; beeing based on debian, it's also really easy to remove parts of it / install new things. So while philosophically I'd prefer starting from a very basic image and add stuff, doing the reverse has the advantages that it gives us a working system immediately, and that once things are removed, it's easy to keep them out :) (on debian, you can just output the list of used packages, save that somewhere, and reuse that same list to put another installation at the same level). > > 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. indeed. If we had infinite time, why not. But frankly right now our efforts are probably better spent working on etoile itself and not a live cd infrastructure.. It doesn't forbid us anyway to use in the future a live cd based on DragonFly BSD or something else. > 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. -- Nicolas Roard _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
