Am Donnerstag, den 25.03.2010, 04:44 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > 2010/3/24 Björn Thorwirth <[email protected]>: > > Hi All! > > > > I have the idea to create a gentoo livecd focused on pro-audio. I > > planned to make a 32 and a 64 bit one. The latter one should base on > > portage-multilib-overlay (so it's possible to use recent jack) . I > > planned to install the following programs: > > > > - ardour > > - jack > > - qjcakctl > > - xwax > > - patchage > > - audacity and/or rezound > > - rosegarden > > -qsampler > > - qtractor > > - LMMS > > - Mixxx > > - Mp3diags > > - Sound Converter > > - Picard > > - gmusicbrowser > > - lash/ladish ? > > -some synths > > > > And a common gnome system. Do you have further suggestions what you > > would like to see? > > > > An installable system would be nice, too.I've already created several > > gentoo livecds with catalyst, but GLI is since 2006 dead. I already > > talked to sabayon devs which use molecule to create sabayon iso's. > > molecule is still missing any doc. Do you have suggestions how to create > > an installer? And what do you think of the project? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Björn Thorwirth > > Cheers. It's cool that you want to do something like this for the community. > > As a couple of others have said, if you like Gnome then I vote you > replace it with XFCE4. It's Gnome-like and much lighter. I guess you are right. I can install enlightenment and xfce. e16 is very light and stable. and e17 has made good development in the last time, too. I guess I'll add all 3 for now. > > I guess I'm not totally on top of what a Live CD is used for these > days. I always viewed it as a stepping stone toward installing the OS. > Use the Live CD for a day or two, decide if you like it, and then do > the install. How to you envision people people use your Live CD? If > there's a permanent use then adding lots of apps makes sense. If it's > a step to something else then go light. My first Idea was to have something to do a live performance, even when my regular laptop suddenly dies. That's not very probable - but's nice to have an insurance. And I thought that could be of interest for other people, too.. Gentoos pro-audio combined with other stuff like portage-multilb is in my mind the most advanced linux audio platform which is out there.. But the barrier to get in touch with gentoo and get such a system woking is high - at least for linux newbies. I'm already working at the livecd. Having a working installer would be really cool. I'm going to try out molecule at the weekend. > > On the other hand, having some groovy on-line tool that allowed people > to choose what apps they wanted and then the app built an iso file > that they could burn would be too cool, wouldn't it? ;-) That is a nice idea .. but i guess one would need a build server to prepare alle the binaries and to keep them up to date. It shouldn't be too hard to set such a server up. The iso could be created at serverside and maybe cached.
> > Anyway, good luck with your project. Thanks :) > > - Mark > > > -- Bjoern Thorwirth, Zentrum für Medizinische Biotechnologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany phone +49 201 183-4026, [email protected]
