Amaroklive and gentoo catalyst

[Greg Meyer]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 3:40 am, Luca Casagrande wrote:
> > For the next one, I think it may be decided to use kubuntu as the base,
> > although Guti was reviewing the situation with pclos, so it may not be
> > decided.
>
> I thought that you build amaroklive from scratch, adding just what it's
> needed...In my test i made an iso with amarok as the only app on the cd and
> a basic kde installation; as kde has loaded, amarok start in full screen
> mode.

No, It's not like we do a Gentoo stage1 and only add amarok.  We (in the past, 
not saying we should always do it this way) start with a base distro and 
remove all the stuff we don't need.  This has been beneficial because a lot 
of the technical heavy lifting has been done to get the thing to boot on as 
many hardware setups as possible.

Just let me make a side comment here, as you have given me the opportunity, 
because this has perpetually been a problem with the livecd development (and 
Luca, this is not targeted at you, just the process in general).  Everybody 
that wants to help seems to want to use their pet distribution, and as such 
we risk offending people if we reject the suggestions of using their distro.  
I have had at least 4 people in the past volunteer to help only to see them 
forget about it when their distro of choice was not used as the base.

pclos was used for practical reasons, (I don't even use it on my production 
machines).   So let's have a discussion of what base distro makes the most 
sense from a practical and technical standpoint.  What are we going to use 
and who is going to do the mastering?  Right now we have four people that 
have volunteered to make the iso and they all have suggested different 
distros.

>
> > Artwork is really the holdup, otherwise we would have long ago issued an
> > iso.
>
> No help on this sorry :(

Would you be interested in helping get amaroklive.com into shape.  We need to 
update it for the new release.

-- 
Greg