[Lincs] LLUG Distro

[Dave Rice]

Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk wrote:

>First of all, sorry for the late reply... I've been moving over the last
>week so haven't had access to my email since Wednesday
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>>What to use as a base...
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>Seeing as the concensus now seems to be KDE, I'm happy to go along with
>that. So are we going to use a modified Kubuntu Live CD distribution
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>>We don't need to go overboard, but a nice boot image, splash screen,
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>and desktop background are the minimum. >'borrow' a nice icon theme
>perhaps and a complementary colour scheme.
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>I can knock up a theme, perhaps Iain and myself can work together on
>this one?
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>Application Set:
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>Have we got an upto date application set for the distro?
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>Cheers,
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>Grahame 
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Hi guys,


seems like we're getting somewhere!  ;-)

I think we should have a CD that can run live and be installed to HDD, 
not a major prob as long as we get the right base to sart with.

I've looked at Ubuntu Live, Kubuntu Live, Kanotix, Knoppix 3.9, Gnoppix 
2.12, Morphix, PCLinuxOS ..and am currently d/ling the new Knoppix 4.0.2 CD.

My ISP is gonna love me  ;)

IF Knoppix4.0.2 looks good on initial tests i think i'll go for that, as 
the others, although great in thier own right, are too limiting.  
Knoppix, as has been identified by many others, is great for re-mastering.

The only, one, thing I'm not a fan of in Knoppix, and it's not a show 
stopper, is that they still use the XFree86 X server...not Knoppix's 
fault I know, it's a debian thing, but all the others use the new X.org 
server. But as I said it's not ashowstopper and at least it's stable!

I'm not sure which version of KDE Knoppix4 comes with, hopefully 3.4.2, 
but i'm not holding my breath.  But, hopefully, it won't be that hard to 
upgrade.

As soon as i have Knoppix4 extracted and post a full list of packages on 
ricey.co.uk so you can all see, and we can decide what to bin/add.

Grahame, Iain please go ahead and get a theme off the ground and ready 
to go, if we have that ready it will be, hopefully,
just a case of install and update /etc/skel!

I may need more help....anyone....anyone?  with bootsplash and 
bootloader screens, not just designing one, but incorporation.
If Knoppix4 uses isolinux, the bootloader screen is straightforward to 
update, the splash screens have always been a pig.  We may have to not 
have one!

anyway back to the grindstone  ;)

Ricey