> Because the RHEL RPMs tend to become bigger and bigger the
> SL53 mini_livecd will be around 285MB, which is still 
> reasonable small, I think.

As long as a normal CD has to be used...


> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/53/i386/. 

Thanks. 


> I know that other LiveCDs have a much fancier installer. 
> To everybody: feel free to contribute.

Provided that there will be an updated/enh. mini_livecd_SL53 later... (to motivate people).


> 2. Install login manager, like gdm, if not yet done

Why install it if it's not there and it's not needed?! Oh, it's needed... if autologin is off!


> Your wishes are nedit, xfe, gqview and rxvt-unicode (and
> maybe mp3blaster)

Let's drop mp3blaster. I'd install gxine anyway, except on the live system :-)


> May idea was not to have too many packages on the LiveCD
> which are not part of SL. Since they will be never updated later,
> if the LiveCD is installed or maybe even worse, they will break 
> future updates of an installed LiveCD.

Well, the idea was that you _would/could_ convince the others to *add* them as part of SL! 
-- gqview and rxvt-unicode are in EPEL, they could be trusted enough, and rebuilding them for SL shouldn't be a pain. (Normally, EPEL doesn't always mix well with Rpmforge AFAIK, so it shouldn't be enabled on a regular basis.)
-- xfe depends on fox-1.6, which doesn't evolve. Both of them could be rebuilt for SL, tested by several people (they're stable and they *do* work), and rebuilt for SL5.4, etc. IMHO, the SL team has added to SL packages that are much more trickier than these two!

I have a sudden nostalgia for the old-style X apps, and xfe fits the picture, now that I rediscovered IceWM ;-)


> If you follow the instruction on
> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build.html,
> it should be quite easy to build your own LiveCD. 

I should be at a different hour and use some coffee to make sure I follow them!

Keep up the good work, the mini_livecd was such a surprise discovery! 

Oh, and let's hope there will be updated/enhanced editions of mini_livecd_SL53! I'll try to find some time to think of how I could help...

Cheers,
R-C



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