[NTLUG:Discuss] Merry Christmas... Stuff their stockin with these!

[Jay Urish]

I have an idea.
You are concentrating too much on an old medium.. I say pull back and 
re-group and look at doing a DVD. Farting around CD's IMHO is sort of 
futile. DVD burners are now around $70 and DVD roms are like 30$ or so.
Why spend so much time fooling with space saving techniques when you 
could just go for the gusto!


Steve Baker wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>> Many people are used to sharing the gift of Linux with their
>> friends and relatives during the holidays.  Some of the
>> favorite places for "create your own" CDs:
> 
> 
> I've been following (and in a small way, helping) a group called
> 'The Games Based Linux Distro' who are trying to put together a live
> CD containing a minimal Linux and a large collection of OpenSourced
> games...plus (maybe) a browser and email client and a few other simple
> tools:
> 
>     http://www.gbld.net
> 
> That team is failing through lack of momentum.  We were trying to
> make a stripped-down Gentoo LiveCD that would autodetect and install
> appropriate OpenGL drivers for reasonably modern ATI and nVidia cards
> and have a Mesa fallback for others - and also to autodetect a sound
> card.  Working with the network and with the host computer's hard drive
> were not necessary - but obviously desirable if we're to include a browser
> and email client.
> 
> That would have left about 350 to 400 Mbytes on the CD for games - and
> we'd done extensive work to come up with a really good set of OpenSource
> games (ie not 50 different versions of Tetris) and a workable plan for
> making them easy to launch from a GUI.  All of the games we picked are
> working well and we'd tested them carefully - eliminating the ones that
> took a ton of valuable disk space or those that were too similar to
> one-another - attempting to get a broad spectrum of game genres.
> 
> Anyway - the project is failing because of the effort in getting a
> sufficiently cut down distro together using the expertise of a bunch
> of games people who know far too little about the distro side of things.
> 
> So - does anyone know of a LiveCD starting point that has about half
> the CD free but which has enough 'stuff' there to boot and load OpenGL
> drivers?   If so then we'd have a great freebie CD to give to games
> enthusiasts.
> 
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