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Re: [school-discuss] Live CD: DIY vs. Distribution

I whole heartedly agree. In-fact I recently read an article in this month's Linux Format about this very topic, and I think it could help out greatly with the creation of a Schoolforge specific live distro. Which I also think is a great way to promote the technology, BTW.
Fedora 7 has a new tool included for creating Live Disks from you existing install. It looks very user friendly from a GUI standpoint, and would allow for a lot of flexibility in creating a top notch educational disk. Link below. 

http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
My magazine came with a disk of the current incarnation of Fedora 7. I can install and check it out to see if it really is as easy as they claim it to be. 

Chris Gregan
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Ben Armstrong wrote:

In an effort to turn something productive out of recent discussion relating
to this topic, I commend to anyone who is interested using a Do-It-Yourself
approach rather than contemplating making a separate distribution.  That is,
rather than relying on some third party to make a distribution that may or
may not serve your needs, tools exist today to allow anyone, with a minimum
of effort, to make a live CD, DVD or flash drive that is pure Debian or pure
Ubuntu.  This approach does not fork these well-known and well-supported
distributions, greatly reducing the risk of your venture and the time and
effort required to produce and support a usable live system that exactly
meets your needs.

With Debian-live (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/) this is quite easy.
I use live-helper + live-initramfs with the Debian Jr. project, and provide
support for these packages on irc on #debian-live @ irc.oftc.net and on the
development mailing list.  So if you have questions about how your projects
might make use of these tools, I'd be happy to talk to you.

Ben
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