[LB-XO-LiveCD] XO live CD

[wolfgang at rohrmoser-engineering.de]

On Friday 29 August 2008, David Farning wrote:
> Wolfgang,
>
> I was wondering if you intend to continue spining XO-live CDs?
>
> I have just built a Ubuntu live cd that runs Sugar as the default
> desktop.
>
> Have you seen advantages to basing off the xo-fedora OS?  Both Debian
> and Ubuntu are getting some pretty good packages.
>
> If you would like I can work on a Debian based sugar liveCD?
>
> Thanks
> dfarning

Hi David,

good work!  I will try out one of your Live-CD's this weekend.

Yes I am planning to continue support for XO-LiveCD's which are based
on the official XO build images for several reasons:

   * the build images are continuously maintained, developed and
     tested on XO hardware. Probably you know the useful status 
     page from Bert:
     http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html
 
   * using the results of OLPC people work, 
      minimizes the work for Live-CD maintenance 

   * I want to provide a LiveCD which can easily customized of
      all kind. If you read the documentation and look on the
      CD directory structure you will see that the XO build image is 
      separated from configuration, activities, additional RPM 
      packages etc. This makes it easy to remaster the LiveCD
      for special usage, for example: add more language support, 
      preselection of activities, which children should in the classroom
      and much more.
      
Anyway, technology is always changing. Personally I am not very familiar with 
Fedora and would prefer to have Debian based images. 
In my opinion providing Sugar packages for Debian
is a good way to go, I like the development regarding Debian Live, and of
course their should be Sugar Live-CD's based on Debian/Ubuntu.

regards
                   Wolfgang