X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <4EAAAA58.9060504@laserlinc.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:12:56 -0400 From: Joshua Lansford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: [geda-user] Live CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hey guys, had an idea. Thought I would share it just in case someone else wanted to implement it. I might implement it if I get around to it. What if we make a live linux CD with the gEDA tool sweet on it? All the important tools, tutorials and relevant websites could be linked from the desktop. Of course it could be branded all over by changing the desktop picture, etc. This would allow windows folks to simple burn the CD, boot and evaluate the tools. Or you could set up a virtual machine and boot the live disk in there. This would bypass most of the difficulty in downloading, compiling and installing that a normal linux user does without thinking about it. Simple insert the CD, reboot and go. The platform I would recomend is Puppy. Puppy is a linux distribution which runs about 100megs. Once you customize your environment there is a script in the start menu (pardon the windows term, not sure what the linux equivalent is) which takes the in memory filesystem and generates a new iso which is a live cd which comes up in the configuration just accomplished. There are also the standard live cd links which also install the installation to disk. Thus if someone were to boot Puppy and install gEDA, then the iso image could be generated and then distributed. There are a lot of people I know who could handle burning and booting off of a CD but wouldn't be able to install a normal linux application outside of a package manager. Comments? ~Joshua