Hi, Pigeon schrieb:
As mentioned in the LinuxTag mail thread earlier, I've started preparing a FG live cd.
Great!! I'm very glad you're doing this! [SNIP]
Things that I need input from people: - what window manager/environment should we use/should be the default?
This is asking for a flame war, but we'll see. I can only tell you that I'm currently using GNOME2 with metacity as window manager. I can't say anything about KDE, except that it was using up pretty much RAM the last time I checked - which must have been about four years ago ;-) If it's still that way, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to use it on a FlightGear live CD.
Anyway, as Martin already said, the focus should be on FlightGear. Therefore the window manager probably doesn't need to be anything fancy. Given the target audience of a live CD fvwm95 or s.th. like that might be suitable, as long as users can easily start FlightGear and whatever auxiliary applications (Atlas, TerraSync, etc.).
- what aircrafts should we include?
I vote for the C172P as standard model, Piper Cub, Citation Bravo and the B1900D as minimum. This clearly doesn't exclude any others, but I think these are probably the best from the small and business jet fraction we currently have. Can't tell anything about the military or larger jets.
- atlas?
I'd say yes. If you put Atlas on there, a set of pre-generated maps for the included scenery could be a good idea.
Hopefully sometime this week or next week I would have something for people to test with.
I'll try to test it as soon as it is available. Perhaps I'll have the possibility to test it on some non-development machines and with "simple" users ;-)
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