Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
| From: | David Zeuthen <davidz-AT-redhat.com> | |
| To: | fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com | |
| Subject: | Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools | |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:00:07 -0500 |
Hi, After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed "Zod") and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software. At a glance, the live CD features o Linux 2.6.18 o GNOME 2.16 desktop environment o GStreamer 0.10 multimedia framework o X.org 7.1 o AIGLX and Compiz for 3D desktop o Lots of applications including, but not limited to o Beagle (Desktop Search) o F-Spot (Photo Management) o Evolution (Email and Calendering) o Firefox (Web Browsing) o Ekiga (IP telephony) o Rhythmbox (Music Player) o Totem (Movie Player) o Games (Games) o The Gimp (Graphics) o Inkscape (Vector Graphics) o Abiword (Word Processor) o Gnumeric (Spreadsheet) o nautilus-open-terminal (For the adult in you) o Assistive Technology including the Orca screen reader o NetworkManager is on by default o VPN connectivity software including vnpc and OpenVPN o Partition editing via GParted o SELinux targeted mode including the SELinux trouble shooter o Many many fonts; almost 100% coverage o All the localizations included in FC6 and FC6 o All the input methods (SCIM) present in FC6 o Exclusive live CD wallpaper you won't find in FC6 or FE6! o R/W file system so you can install software on the running live CD o Ability to run from RAM if you have 1GB or more of memory o and lots and lots more.. The live CD is currently only available for i386 architectures. Support for other architectures including ppc and x86_64 is planned. The live cd weighs around 682MB. Download from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/liv... SHA1SUM: 8771d21af1974492424438cbe42f1bae0161ea96 FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso or get on the Torrent using http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Zod-livecd-1-i3... Feedback can be given in Bugzilla; file a bug against the component you have an issue with.. and make it block this tracker bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=FC6L... if you believe it's a live CD specific bug. Don't get burned on Christmas shopping, burn the gift of a live CD! ==== This live CD is built using a source code based on the pilgrim project. This is an open project and participation is encouraged and appreciated. See these documents on how to get involved hacking on the code and what it's all about http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools... http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools... Participate on the Fedora Live CD mailing list and the Wiki page to make the Fedora live CD experience even better http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list The livecd-tools and fedora-livecd packages, which is required to rebuild the live CD, have just been submitted to Fedora Extras, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220635 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220637 for details. Until these packages are in Extras, you can grab source and binary i386 packages from here http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/ and start cranking out your own live CD's. Thanks and a merry Christmas break to everyone! David -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
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Respins
Posted Dec 23, 2006 6:35 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
LiveCD and respins is what Fedora Unity used to do. The latest respin was made in August, and there has been no FC6 respin, which is really needed considering significant problems in the official release. Yet the website of Fedora Unity still says that the respins "are scheduled for release once each month throughout the active life of the corresponding Fedora Core release".There was an FC6 LiveCD made by Fedora Unity, but it was made from the original release without any updates. It would be great if Fedora started making the official respins in addition to the LiveCD.
It looks like Fedora is working on the respins. I really like that the the respin tool, pungi, is developed openly.
Respins
Posted Dec 23, 2006 15:16 UTC (Sat) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]
With anaconda able to access live yum repositories during install, official respins are less important -- you can now just add the updates repo to the installer's list and you'll get an up-to-date system at first install.
(This will become more obvious in future Fedora releases -- the feature is new, now.)
Respins
Posted Dec 26, 2006 6:36 UTC (Tue) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link]
The issue with FC6, though (and I assume this is what the gp was referring to) is that Anaconda misidentifies single i686 CPUs as i586 when choosing the kernel, and I imagine that the same CPU signature would be grabbed from updates. I am not sure what the performance hit is, if any, but I still think it's embarrassing and wrong enough that it should have been treated as a brown-paper-bag bug and the CD1 and DVD images respun.
Respins
Posted Jan 4, 2007 4:44 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
It might be worthwhile for the Fedora project to plan on doing a couple of ISO respins. Once a few hundred commonly used packages have updates, and the next major release is still months away, it can actually save bandwidth on the mirrors to have more-current ISOs, because all those sides then avoid updating hundreds of packages with yum. It's also nicer for people who don't have high-speed access, they can get a more up-to-date CD by mail.
Respins
Posted Jan 4, 2007 23:34 UTC (Thu) by pjones (subscriber, #31722) [Link]
Well, if nothing else, this is at least fairly trivial to work around with an updates.img or (if you're installing from NFS) the "RHupdates" directory.
Make a directory named "RHupdates" in the top level of the install tree on your nfs server (i.e. the same directory that holds "GPL", "eula.txt", and the "Fedora" subdirectory), and in it put packageSack.py (from yum's .src.rpm) in it.
Voila, when you install from that tree using nfs it will work correctly.
Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
Posted Dec 23, 2006 12:30 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]
all input languages, all translations. see what it saves if you don't shipwith 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?
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.
Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
Posted Jan 1, 2007 7:31 UTC (Mon) by Eldric (guest, #42491) [Link]
WHEN is the Fedora Core 6 Respin DVD going to be released?
Because it is very sorely needed. Anybody got any info on that?