Proposing a greatgoodstupid Idea
The basic idea stands in creating a LiveCD, with only the necessary packages you want and maybe with only the modules for the drivers you need. And then , if later you need any other package you can download it via apt-get (or its corresponding GUI).
I just installed another 256MB of RAM in a PC we're using for a fileserver, for a total of 512MB. It's using Fedora Core 2. Thing is, just doing basically nothing, most of the...
Here I am thinking in a easy to use web site, to enable beginners to download his Linux CD, in a sort of centralized way. Maybe, with accounts in the site-portal, the user will be able to save her LiveCD configuration.
Now, I think one difficulty will be how to "install" the packages so they are ready to run in the LiveCD, this could be tackled by making it a non-liveCD (it must be installed), but creating a install CD which will install the selected packages and drivers.
You can look it as the inverse of gentoo, the highly customizable linux distro, unlike it, this distribution will be focused to the people who does not want to mess with configuration.
John Hasler
-- std P.S. I gladly accept replies with constructive and intelligent information, please abstent of writing flames or anything else as I will only read them and laugh (i.e. I will not answer them.)
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