From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 24 18:15:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6840537B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A7843E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlavigne6@cogeco.ca) Received: from d226-42-146.home.cgocable.net (d226-42-146.home.cgocable.net [24.226.42.146]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9DA23F2; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:15:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:17:11 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca To: Patrick Tracanelli Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: live CD? In-Reply-To: <20021124225644.AE585938E@fep6.cogeco.net> Message-ID: <20021124211326.E209-100000@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > The main goal behind the idea of the LiveCD project is to allow any user to > build their own custom LiveCD. A FreeBSD System that may run directly from > the CD, with anything the user might add to it. > > Actually the idea was to maintain a Live rescue disk that sometimes could be > more flexible than the "live cd" that comes out w/ the freebsd set of CDs. > > When it started, there was 2 official live ISO images, one running a small > set of tools, to be used as rescue disk, and a bigger one, running X and a > sort of graphical applications plus firewall, bridging, routing and some > features more. It was intended to be such a demonstration CD. > > In fact we (in brazil) distributed it before, as a demo cd in some > opensource events. In particular i gave some versions of it to a number of > students at my university. > > But since the "tool set" was released we stopped maintaining a demo cd, > since the users now had a way to do it themselves. > > An ancient version of it may be found at > ftp://ftp3.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-LiveCD/ > > while the most recent files are at > http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php > > About its usage worldwide, there are users from many places in the globe > registered at the projects' mailing list. Some are also contributors, but i > believe most of them use it as rescue disk and batch instalation mode. > > If you think a more flexible demo CD worths, we may discuss a set of > applications to add and create a more recent one. Sounds like a great advocacy tool to me. Especially if it included a cool looking desktop (is that possible on a demo CD?) I get tired of the old line, I thought BSD only made a good server... What do the rest of you advocatees think? Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message