I am quite interested in the running from memory concept, I guess you are somehow copying the entire CD to a ramdisk or something and mounting that over the filesystem, thereby trading a bit of loading time for it running like a greased whippet when fully loaded. This sounds to me like it might be a worthy performance compromise and give a rather good impression to the new user. I would rather stick to the standard packages and configuration though (maybe dropping something if more room is needed for the in-memory CD thing) if you have improvements to the base configuration then the best thing to do is to work on getting them into the main CD, there are sessions at UDS where everyone can participate on deciding what goes in.
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