Re: An Idea

[Steve Isaacson <spisaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the past(2003/2004) we made our own branded versions of the Knoppix LiveCD to hand out at different student involvement fairs(K-Day being the biggest one). There are probably still remnants of that floating around on the servers.

It was a fun exercise in creating a live CD and working with the MTU LUG branding. In the end I think it was useful to allow people to be able to experience Linux without having to modify their current installation and provided a way to give out links to our website/IRC server. Though with all of the work that it entailed in later years we just ordered Ubuntu Live CDs.

-steve

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Gabe Delgado <gjdelgad@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I appreciate all you guy's input on this. You helped me make up my mind on whether or not I would go through with this. I'm just not going to try and build it. Creating a new distro is hard enough as it is without dealing with MTU's own guidelines. Like I said it was only an idea and I didn't mind exploring the possibility. Seems to me it's possible but not probable. Thanks for all the input.

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Andrew Boettcher <awboettc@xxxxxxx> wrote:

For all this crazy distro talk, isn't it much easier to put a veneer
on top of another distro?  Make a livecd, like gentoo's liveCD, where
the frambuffer splash and desktop are MTU themed.  This seems like a
lot less work, and expands with another distro...

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Kaleb Elwert <kelwert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just add -l 2 or something like that to make, to limit the number of jobs
> that will be made. That keeps jobs from being spawned unless the load is
> below that amount. Sorry, I realize I'm new here. I should be coming to the
> first meeting, with any luck.
>
> -Kaleb Elwert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Freed [mailto:dwfreed@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:11 AM
> To: lug-l@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: An Idea
>
> I would be willing to compile the base system if you give me an account on
> the SSH server.  The only thing is it's compiling so sometimes it will slow
> the server down.
>
> Douglas Freed
>