Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools [LWN.net]

Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

Posted Dec 23, 2006 12:30 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
Parent article: Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

all input languages, all translations. see what it saves if you don't ship
with the bloathware that is called openoffice ;-)

point is, tough, can the users do without? no matter how big and
inefficient it is, everybody uses it. yes, including me - now and then...

not that you can't use abiword for writing texts - you can. and Koffice is
good enough as well. but you need OO.o for opening proprietary files, and
Sun & friend would be stupid to support any effort to put OO.o's MS
fileformat import filters in a seperate library. Users would be able to
ditch OO.o and use another free office suite...

aaah well, the livecd looks great. not unique, but great. can it be used
to install fedora as well?

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Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

Posted Dec 23, 2006 18:40 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

The beta did have openoffice.org. In this release, it was decided that translations and input methods are going to be more important. However Pilgrim as a live cd creation tool can work well to create Live CD's out of other combinations of packages as you wish.

It is possible to install into the harddisk but it's not very straight forward yet. Consider this a early Christmas release. It would be likely a feature available in the next version. See the wishlist in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

Agree, OOo critical for wider use of the Live CD

Posted Dec 24, 2006 4:53 UTC (Sun) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link]

The first thing most desktop users will try is web browsing and office document work. I think adding OOo is very important if the Live CD is to be useful for getting new potential users to try it out.