Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 10:47 +1200 schrieb Glen Eustace:
It would be great if the build environment and the result could be totally independent. i.e. actually start with a clean slate (empty CD :-) and add only those things one really wants. All the supporting stuff used to manage the installation and the whole process e.g. python and lots of others should only need to be present in the build environment not the resulting CD.
I am looking at CDs for Kiosk-like solutions. It would be great to simply drag across the kernel, networking and a browser, satisfy the dependencies on that lot and leave the rest.
Have you heard about the "freedom toaster"? It was introduced in the Go-Open series in Australia (an open source series sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth:
http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/episode_3/what_is_hot/ (you can also episode 3 on this website)
They produced something that is hardware and software and enables users to just burn a distro like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. It's not quite what you want, but it is also Kiosk style. The combination with hardware is cool. A small linux inside and then maybe they have some number keys and a key for submit and cancel.
Maybe the better process would be if Fedora itself is built with a modular system that we also can use for creating a live CD. So Fedora could be a very flexible distro 'by default'. This software then should be distributed with Fedora so it gets more testing.
Does anybody know how Fedoras official CDs are produced right now? What are they using as helper tools?
Thilo