> > the freekbox3 is primarily a KDE-based distribution, but the folks from > > columbus have proposed a gnome-oriented variant, too. > > I'd be interested in this. Is there is a list or group of people that > are working on this? coordination is done on freegeek's distro list: http://lists.freegeek.org/listinfo/distro i believe freegeek columbus also has a list where some stuff is discussed (not sure where, off the top of my head). all the wiki pages for about freegeek distro development should be available at: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Category:Distro we'll be having irc meetings twice a month on tuesday nights (19:15-21:00 -0700): http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Distro_Meetings > > also interested in defining additional profiles for simple-cdd, if you > > have package lists and debconf selections, they could be included as > > examples for simple-cdd. > > > > we could maybe make a debian-np installer separate from the freekbox3... > > though in the end it would be nice to have a single CD to do Desktop > > Systems, Application Servers, Internet (web/mail/etc) Servers, etc. if > > we can fit it all :) > I agree. I think that any revived Debian-NP *should* be using > simple-cdd and there's really no reason that we would not want to > provide the freebox3 options as an option since they are designed for > and will be useful to subset of non-profit organizations. in a sense, simple-cdd does some ugly hacks that could probably be done better. it would be good to move to using .udebs and base-config hooks instead of special debconf pre-seeding hooks, i think. but it mostly seems to work. :) the big trick is keeping the CD image size down. putting both KDE and GNOME onto a single CD pretty much requires using a 700MB CD image, even though i'd like to try and keep to 650MB for maximum compatibility... and i'd hate to make 2-3 CD images with largely the same stuff on them only because of size issues. anybody interested in working on a livecd? live well, vagrant
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