On 7/28/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Luis Villa"> > > > I'd be fairly happy if we can figure out a way such that an installed > > liveCD 'becomes' an Ubuntu install with very slight default changes at the > > first update. > > Breezy will ship with "Ubuntu Express", which is a LiveCD based installer, > which will happily install whatever is on the LiveCD. Testing installations > from the heavily modified GNOME LiveCD will make sure that it works beyond > what the Ubuntu developers will be concentrating on (for the first release, > it's unlikely they'll be testing modified LiveCDs very much).
FWIW, it's not terribly heavily modified- just different package set + some artwork + a handful of gconf keys at this point. That said, I have been finding bugs and getting them to Seb, so we are helping get things in shape. [Also, since there are no x86 liveCD builds ATM, AFAICT there is no way for me to actually test Ubuntu Express at this point.] > > That's actually tricky ATM, because we remove many default Ubuntu packages > > that are wasteful, which means that Ubuntu might not consider such an > > install an 'Ubuntu' install, and be reluctant to support it. [There are > > more details to why this is, but I don't feel like writing them out now; > > I'm in class ;)] > > I don't think that's a huge problem, because in the end, it's still using > Ubuntu binaries from the standard repositories (at least so far - I can see > this changing down the track). Yeah, this is a distinct possibility in the future, though thankfully not yet a requirement. > There will be some odd non-package-managed > muck due to the customisations, but that's not a huge cross to bear. Then, > if a user wanted to switch to a standard Ubuntu install, he or she could > just install the standard metapackages. Presto. :-) Yeah, perhaps we could say 'if you want the install to be supported, install these meta-packages' and just leave it at that? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list