2007/3/16, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Boy, was I barking up the wrong tree in the last message. Think I've found the right tree this time. :-)See: http://www.linux-live.org/ Needs some embellishments for our purposes. Let's recap the scenario. Assume we are out making a presentation, introducing OLPC to folks who have maybe read some articles about it, maybe not. We arehoping to recruit them as developers. We have an hour or so. For some hands on experience We have asked them to bring their laptops, and a usb flash drive We don't have time for any complicated installation, and they have a random assortment of hardware, and operating systems. Most of them have environments that are difficult, if not nearly impossible to work with. In case they don't have enough free disk space, or there is some other problem installing an image on their hard drive we bring a plain vanilla sever with a open shared network readonly filesystem. In case of difficulty with their usb drive, or if they just forgot it. We have available 1 GB usb flash $20-$30 from a reputable source they can borrow or purchase. We give them LiveCd/Dvd / is a unionfs of rw filesystem on usbdrive ro Mike's image ported to FC6, or just about any OS image for that matter but we don't care about that. Mikes image might fit on compressed LiveDvd but won't fit on LiveCd faster access to bigger images from readonly filesystem on harddrive, or network drive, readonly last I heard linux did not reliably write to nfts we just don't want to risk it even with the ntfs-ng driver. Some of the users may have extra fragile filesystem on odd vintage os. Image on local file system for performance and independence Image can be network filesystem if necessary. After they go home they can solve the problems that required them to use the network filesystem cryptographic signature verifies validity of image will verify lack of subtle problems case insensitive filenames, corrupted files, etc. if it's a PKI signature it fits the security model. -- Drew Einhorn _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
We, at Tuquito OLPC Project, are working on a Sugar Developer's Tuquito LiveCD which will feature most of the characteristics you mention. It will soon be released, you can contact me or Mauro Torres ( mauro[at]tuquito.org.ar ) if you are interested. Regards. -- Gonzalo Delgado. Equipo de desarrollo Tuquito OLPC. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
