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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lansford [mailto:Joshua DOT Lansford AT laserlinc DOT com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:13 AM
> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: [geda-user] Live CD

...

> 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.

That would definitely apply to me.  I know enough about linux to run my home web server on it (Debian), but everything I install is done from a package manager or a project with its own install routines like Tomcat.

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