Experimental Hoary live CD available for testing

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:50:25AM -0500, Danilo wrote:

> I believe most of the live CDs use framebuffer (Xfb) for X configuration
> over kernel VBE2 framebuffer, so it's pretty static, and easy to set up,
> while working for most of the graphics cards since 1997 or so. Of course,
> no acceleration, but it's a Live CD anyway :)

We can do better :-)  We already have infrastructure (used in standard
installs) to create a more optimal configuration, and we should use it on
the live CD as well.  It just needs a few tweaks.

> Btw, is there any chance on getting tips on your build environment (i.e.
> sources) for Hoary Live CD? I'd like to create another one with Serbian
> localisations instead (OOo, Firefox, better fonts, blahblah...), and don't
> feel like recreating it all from scratch.

Sivan Green and Brian Sutherland have expressed interest in writing a how-to
document.

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 - mdz