Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:56:09 -0000 From: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@FreeBSDBrasil.com.br> To: Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca> Cc: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: live CD? Message-ID: <20021124225647.1040B43EA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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The main goal behind the idea of the LiveCD project is to allow any user to build their own custom LiveCD. A FreeBSD System that may run directly from the CD, with anything the user might add to it. Actually the idea was to maintain a Live rescue disk that sometimes could be more flexible than the "live cd" that comes out w/ the freebsd set of CDs. When it started, there was 2 official live ISO images, one running a small set of tools, to be used as rescue disk, and a bigger one, running X and a sort of graphical applications plus firewall, bridging, routing and some features more. It was intended to be such a demonstration CD. In fact we (in brazil) distributed it before, as a demo cd in some opensource events. In particular i gave some versions of it to a number of students at my university. But since the "tool set" was released we stopped maintaining a demo cd, since the users now had a way to do it themselves. An ancient version of it may be found at ftp://ftp3.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-LiveCD/ while the most recent files are at http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php About its usage worldwide, there are users from many places in the globe registered at the projects' mailing list. Some are also contributors, but i believe most of them use it as rescue disk and batch instalation mode. If you think a more flexible demo CD worths, we may discuss a set of applications to add and create a more recent one. --------- Mensagem Original -------- De: "Dru" <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca> Para: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cópia: "Ganesh Swami" <ganesh@rapidtech.bc.ca>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Assunto: Re: live CD? Data: 24/11/02 20:27 [cut] > > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/livecd > > Should tell you everything you need to know. Great. I'll take a close look and try it out myself when my schedule loosens up over Xmas. If it's any good, I'll definitely do an article. Has anybody tried these CDs out yet? Are we making and giving out these CDs at BSD trade shows and such? Do we have a centralized distribution system for such give aways? Dru __________________________________________________ http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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