GNOME Live CDs II – the return!
March 19, 2007 10:03 pm gnome, marketingThey’re back! And this time, they’ve got company.
Two years ago, Luis Villa took up the cross and made sure that there was a GNOME LiveCD for GNOME 2.10 and GNOME 2.12 – he was joined in that journey by a band of companions like Marcus Bauer, the man who made sure the 2.12 Live CD was available in 12 languages.
After a couple of releases of a lapse, they’re back! We have revived torrent.gnome.org (with many thanks to Corey and Michael from OSU OSL for installing the server so quickly, and for providing the rack space and bandwidth, and to Intel for the 5U (!) server that it’s running off, and to Olav for getting things configured).
Ken van Dine is the man to send all the accolades – he’s one of the people behind Foresight Linux, the most GNOME friendly distro around – they release with the latest GNOME release on the same day as GNOME.
Not only do we have a LiveCD ISO image for download this time, though, we also have VMWare, QEMU and VHD Virtual Server images available for all you virtualisation freaks out there.
LiveCDs and VM appliances are good for a few different things – giving away at trade shows and conferences, showing off GNOME to your boss without having to spend all day installing, or writing and testing GNOME software for the latest platform without being on the bleeding edge for all your user needs.
So head on over to torrent.gnome.org and start seeding.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Now that kqemu is GPL, it would be possible to make a livecd, with autorun support for qemu on windows so people don’t need to change the BIOS settings which is really hard to understand for most users.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Do you happen to know the username and password for the live CD? I downloaded it to try it out, but I couldn’t figure out what the login was.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Username: live
No password
If you click on the user in the list on the GDM screen, it will log you in.
Enjoy!
–Ken