On 12/31/10 8:35 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote: > * My proposal > An idea I had was to rethink the goal of the LiveCD project at all. All the > main books (LFS, BLFS) are about to show how things are going, they have an > educational goal. In LFS it is to show how to build a fairly usable OS from > scratch. The next step is to expand that by adding things using the BLFS book. > It shows how simple packages (like ed for example) are to be installed but > also how it is done for quite complex stuff like X11 and later KDE(4). They > all shows us<how things are made>. > Couldn't that be the idea of the LiveCD project too? Something like a CDFS > book (CD from scratch). Taking a well done LFS build and add this, remove all > that, tweak there and move things around with the final chapter headlined > "Burn that on CD". We have several hints about creating a CD this way, but > unfortunatly they all are quite outdated. > Later on, the CDFS could be extended, like BLFS extends LFS, by a BCDFS book > which shows all the techniques to squeeze more stuff on an ISO, introducing > such things like unionfs etc. etc. and have an eye on more sophisticate > hardware detection and so on.
Nice. > With very very great respect to Alexander Patrakovs work on the CD, i think it > has been gone too far as such a system is at least as complex to maintain as a > full blown desktop. Adding the multi-languange support requires many > developers around the world who are going to maintain and test that all. Even > if I want to, I'm not able to check whether the thai language set is working > proper. > I think nowadays we all can assume that people doing LFS are capable to read > english words and should be able to navigate on a system which "speaks" > English. All the stuff added to the CD hides the real (technical) challage: > Booting from CD - Thats all what a CD in this context is about. > > But, following the idea of (B)CDFS, one who is interested to build such a full > blown LiveCD, the four books (LFS, BLFS, CDFS, BCDFS) should have given enough > howtos and knowledge to do that. > > I would really like to see that the CD project will awake somehow even we have > so much work to do on the BLFS book. > > Just my 0.02€ I know it's been a while since you wrote this, Thomas, but would you be willing to help make this happen? JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
