Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Jun 2007 21:07 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Imagine a customized GNU/Linux distribution, built to your specifications with a minimal amount of effort on your part. If you are running Fedora 7, that dream is now a reality, thanks to Revisor, a graphical interface for building custom install images for Fedora. Taking the shape of a GNOME wizard, Revisor comes close to being an ideal desktop tool. Inexperienced users can use its default settings without much knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes, while more expert users can customize each aspect of producing an .ISO."
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2006-09-19
The live CD creation tools packaged for F7 are in my opinion one of the major new features in this release and for my work the most important one.
This being said, I want to acknowledge that it is still far from easy to create a customized live system. I you want to be able to roll your own, you need to know a lot about Fedora Linux, administration, about rpm dependencies and about bash scripting. And you need some nerdy lust for repeated experiments and thourough testing
The linked article is interesting - still it only touches the surface of the live CD package. For those who want to delve into this I recommend the (not yet complete) documents at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo and http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fedora-livecd...
Also, it is advisable to maintain your on repositories on the network/localhost and to build your own RPMs instead of using the Kickstart-like template files for all changes that need to be applied to the customized live system.
A weekend is nothing. prepare for a week with dark circles around your eyes. Anyway, I already like the modest results I had with F7 better, than what we were able to do with the nevertheless amazing Knoppix toolkit.