[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora Live CD project "kick off"

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 09:02:40 UTC 2005


Hi,

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 14:25 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> So.  To get the ball rolling, how about some introductions?  I'll start.
> 

I'm in the slightly strange position of being a Red Hat contractor who
does various odd jobs (mostly relating to GFS, since I worked for
Sistina in the past). When I'm not working for Red Hat, my main job is
running ChyGwyn, better known as The Linux Emporium, a well known
supplier of all things Linux related but most famous for supplying
various distributions on cheap CDs. As such I'm always keen to see
another distribution made available for me to duplicate and sell :-)

Also, this year the UKUUG Linux conference comes to Swansea, UK which is
where I'm based. I'm considering doing a tutorial on Linux networking
and a Live CD would provide a very useful basis for this I think. I
wrote most of the kernel side of the Linux DECnet networking code, so
this remains an area of interest for me.

My main constraint is the time I can spend on this project bearing in
mind my other commitments.

I am a python programmer (amoung other things) and its the one scripting
language which has tempted me away from C and kernel development, but
I'm still not so keen on the internals of anaconda :-) I don't think it
would be of great help for a Live CD anyway and the initscripts are an
area I think would need a number of changes compared with the "standard"
Fedora distribution.

One area I'm concerned about is the speed of booting and it would be
interesting to see what might be done to address that.

Steve.





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