Re: GSoC: LiveCD

[Robert Luciani <rluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :The GSoC is now upon us and so it is time to hear what you guys would
> :like to see on the new and improved:
> :DragonFly "The X Edition" Live-CD
> :;)
> :Louisa Luciani
> :www.lolaluci.se/lolaluci@gmail.com.asc
> :
> 
>     Is it going to be a CD or a DVD ?  That's an important distinction.
>     Personally I think a special-edition Live-CD is a wonderful idea, but
>     it should be a DVD rather then a CD in order to be able to fit everything
>     in without having to resort to massive compression trickery (which would
>     probably not be enough anyway, for a CD).
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>


A cool trick that we could do if we use a DVD would be to do what
OpenSUSE does. They have a complete disk "image" that they just copy
straight over, which makes their installation the fastest of all the
'big' distros.

-- 
Robert Luciani
Chalmers University of Technology, SWE
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
http://www.rluciani.com/rluciani@gmail.com.asc