http://www.osnews.com/story/16929/Review_of_Fedora_Core_6_Live_CD Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:58:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?201122 http://osnews.com/thread?201122 I wonder how the "build your own" featue will be used. Distributions like Blag and Berry seem like great targets for this feature. Also, I wonder if individuals could use this feature to download their perfection version of FC instead of the DVD or five CD's. Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Excel Hearts Choi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?201146 http://osnews.com/thread?201146 I wonder how the "build your own" featue will be used. Distributions like Blag and Berry seem like great targets for this feature.

The Free Software Foundation will rejoice! (Blag being on their list.)

Also, I wonder if individuals could use this feature to download their perfection version of FC instead of the DVD or five CD's.

I'd still miss the option of installing to hard drive, though.
But there is good news: the next Fedora will 'ship' as "Fedora Gnome" (a.k.a. Fedora Desktop but that makes no sense since KDE is also a desktop), "Fedora KDE", and "Fedora Server". So the amount of CD-burned MBs needed for your favorite installation will be drastically reduced.Edited 2007-01-12 19:17 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?201153 http://osnews.com/thread?201153 Of course. There are number of changes being made for users to customize the distribution or even role out their own very easily. A short list:

* Moving Fedora installer Anaconda to a yum base in Fedora Core 5
* Ability to add any packages from Fedora Extras, custom or third party repository during installation time itself in Fedora Core 6
* The merge of core and extras with two different desktop and one server spins in Fedora 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7
* Creation of Pungi as Free and open source software which is a distribution building tool that Fedora 7
will use.
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi
* Guidelines for derivatives - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraTargettedSpins
* Finally, Pligrim, the live creation tool which makes it trivial to roll out your own. Installation to hard disk feature is already in the latest alpha and that will make the process of creating derviatives as simple as pointing out a Yum repository and listing the packages you want in your own derivative.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCDEdited 2007-01-12 19:17 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?201155 http://osnews.com/thread?201155 I'd still miss the option of installing to hard drive, though.

That option is currently on alpha stage. Feel free to test it and report bugs.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-January/msg0... Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finalzone) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?201166 http://osnews.com/thread?201166 It will be interesting to see if Ubuntu will provide some tools to customize their distro and livecd.

Does anybody know of simple way to make Debian based livecds from scratch (iso small as possible)? Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chris_dk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?201256 http://osnews.com/thread?201256 regarding ubuntu , have you tried reconstructor? [ http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/ ]

it makes the process of customizing the live cd super easy , in fact it is just a matter of point-n-click.

and voila ! you just made a custom live cd with custom artwork/packages/name :-) Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mohasr) Comments