Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/22/06, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD
> announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora
> live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6
> (codenamed "Zod") and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100%
> free software. At a glance, the live CD features
>
>  o Linux 2.6.18
>  o GNOME 2.16 desktop environment
>  o GStreamer 0.10 multimedia framework
>  o X.org 7.1
>  o AIGLX and Compiz for 3D desktop
>  o Lots of applications including, but not limited to
>    o Beagle (Desktop Search)
>    o F-Spot (Photo Management)
>    o Evolution (Email and Calendering)
>    o Firefox (Web Browsing)
>    o Ekiga (IP telephony)
>    o Rhythmbox (Music Player)
>    o Totem (Movie Player)
>    o Games (Games)
>    o The Gimp (Graphics)
>    o Inkscape (Vector Graphics)
>    o Abiword (Word Processor)
>    o Gnumeric (Spreadsheet)
>    o nautilus-open-terminal (For the adult in you)
>  o Assistive Technology including the Orca screen reader
>  o NetworkManager is on by default
>  o VPN connectivity software including vnpc and OpenVPN
>  o Partition editing via GParted
>  o SELinux targeted mode including the SELinux trouble shooter
>  o Many many fonts; almost 100% coverage
>  o All the localizations included in FC6 and FC6
>  o All the input methods (SCIM) present in FC6
>  o Exclusive live CD wallpaper you won't find in FC6 or FE6!
>  o R/W file system so you can install software on the running live CD
>  o Ability to run from RAM if you have 1GB or more of memory
>
>  o and lots and lots more..
>
> The live CD is currently only available for i386 architectures. Support
> for other architectures including ppc and x86_64 is planned. The live cd
> weighs around 682MB. Download from
>
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/live/FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso
>  SHA1SUM: 8771d21af1974492424438cbe42f1bae0161ea96  FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso
>
> or get on the Torrent using
>
>  http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Zod-livecd-1-i386.torrent
>
> Feedback can be given in Bugzilla; file a bug against the component you
> have an issue with.. and make it block this tracker bug
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=FC6LiveCDTracker
>
> if you believe it's a live CD specific bug.
>
> Don't get burned on Christmas shopping, burn the gift of a live CD!
>
> ====
>
> This live CD is built using a source code based on the pilgrim project.
> This is an open project and participation is encouraged and appreciated.
> See these documents on how to get involved hacking on the code and what
> it's all about
>
>  http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=HACKING
>  http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=README
>
> Participate on the Fedora Live CD mailing list and the Wiki page to make
> the Fedora live CD experience even better
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD
>  http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
>
> The livecd-tools and fedora-livecd packages, which is required to
> rebuild the live CD, have just been submitted to Fedora Extras, see
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220635
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220637
>
> for details. Until these packages are in Extras, you can grab source and
> binary i386 packages from here
>
>  http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/
>
> and start cranking out your own live CD's.
>
> Thanks and a merry Christmas break to everyone!
>
>       David
>

Any plans to make Live CDs with KDE? Would be nice to replace Knoppix
with something more Fedora like

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Fedora Core 6 and proud