Alfredo, I'm as glad as you to work together to achieve a better distro in all senses, not to mention the honor it is to me to have this opportunity.
I think the way you went choosing the method is perfect and that the key to improve the LiveCD is just to choose which packages to keep and the ones to remove. After all, that's what sagelwlcd is all about (as is written in the README and the code to build it) although is far from the best choice and still has many rough edges among the ones already described by Rob. So my suggestion is to take your latest distro as a base and make a careful selection of packages in order to get it smaller and faster. Maybe to start with it we can pick the ones used by sagelwlcd and then experiment with others that have the same functionality but are more efficient and/or have less dependencies in order to work. For example trying Wicd instead of Network Manager, etc. We can also try what is the outcome using Arch or other distros if you like the idea and think they may be a better option than your latest distro to work as a base. Greetings, Lucio. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Alfredo Portes <doyenatc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi Lucio, > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I finally got your point. Sincerely I didn't know that such thing as > > requesting > > a particular feature in the LiveCD was possible, that's why I built mine. > > > > I also want to make clear that my intention is not to take your place or > > anyone's, I just built that distro and thought it would be nice to share > it > > and > > that's all. > > On the contrary Lucio, we have been looking for somebody like you to > "take my place" for a longggg time. :-). It feels always that there is not > much > demand for the LiveCD, which decreases my effort in it. > > After trying various methods (and I mean a lot of methods), I settle to > use: > > http://www.linux-live.org/ > > Not sure if you tried it already, a really good project. (This is what > SLAX uses, > probably after Knopixx the best LiveCD out there.) > > I would love to contribute to your effort to make the LiveCD better, > even using your current methods if everybody find it better. > I really dont care what we use (Flux, Gnome, KDE) as > long as we achieve what you already trying: smaller and faster. But the > method to create/update it has to be easy, if not it becomes > unmaintainable. > > > I have no trouble making any contribution or helping in whatever I can in > > the LiveCD. > > Rob's idea is the best but I'm not who to determine whether it's going to > be > > taken > > into account or not. > > I would be glad to follow your lead in this direction...but the better > tools you > find the easier this becomes. Again I am very happy that somebody is > working > on the LiveCD. So on my part I will try you version and give you > feedback on things > to improve. > > Thank you very much for your work, > > Alfredo > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
