Re: [gugmasters] Marketing & promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

What does ubuntu do for splitting out translations?  Do you look at
that just for size constraints?

Thanks,
--Ken

On 2/23/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Ken VanDine <ken vandine org> wrote:
> > Luis,
> >
> > Actually rBuilder can create livecd images, I haven't created them for
> > Foresight yet, but we definately want to.
>
> Ah, it wasn't able to (or at least it wasn't advertised) the last time
> I checked. If that is now the case, rBuilder/foresight seems like a
> pretty impressively good base for us. Does it facilitate the splitting
> out of translations like Ubuntu does?
>
> Dave, I've been asked by the host to take torrent.gnome.org down from
> lack of use; if we're going to actually usefully use it again I can
> request we bring it back up again.
>
> Luis
>
> > On 2/22/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> > > On 2/19/07, Paul Cutler <silwenae gmail com> wrote:
> > > > LiveCD: According to this wiki page (
> > > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveMedia) it says:  "It is not
> > > > a target to do an official version for GNOME 2.18".  If we do:
> > > > LiveCD:  I think that's a great idea.  I've been reading through the
> > > > documentation for customizing an Ubuntu LiveCD at
> > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization/6%2e06
> > > > -- I'm going to need some help on this one.  That wiki page was written for
> > > > Ubuntu 6.06 / Dapper, and if we choose to use Ubuntu, do we want to update
> > > > an Edgy LiveCD or customize a Feisty LiveCD, which already has 2.17.91 and
> > > > should have 2.17.2 soon.  I was also looking at Reconstructor (
> > > > http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/).  I believe looking
> > > > through the Wiki, that Luis Villa led the last LiveCD created for 2.12 -
> > > > Luis, if you have any pointers or advice to share on how that process, I'd
> > > > love to hear them..
> > >
> > > Hey, Paul-
> > > Marcus Bauer is really the person to talk to about liveCDs;
> > > particularly for his work on scripting and localizing the whole
> > > process. I had not seen reconstructor; just from a quick skim it looks
> > > like it would be very good for the basics of a liveCD. (Though an
> > > ideal liveCD would work from stock GNOME, and not patched GNOME like
> > > Ubuntu ships.)
> > >
> > > I generally worked with an unstable Ubuntu release, specifically
> > > because (as you mentioned) that included a very up-to-date GNOME. You
> > > might also want to look at combining the debian 'live-package' tool
> > > and http://www.0d.be/2007/02/11/the-coup-du-zeppelin-project/
> > >
> > > Sadly, AFAIK rpath still doesn't create liveCDs; otherwise their tools
> > > would be perfect. (One could argue that a self-hosting image that
> > > doesn't require rebooting the host PC would be even better, of course.
> > > I leave that to others to noodle on about.)
> > >
> > > Anyway, I can answer at least some questions, I just don't have a
> > > whole lot of time to help out right now. Sorry :/
> > >
> > > Luis
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> > >
> >