Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks
"Jaap A. Haitsma" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.web |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 18:58, Paul Cutler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 18:03 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > <snip> >> > >> >> What's the reason we promote these images or foresight linux instead >> of live CDs/images of Ubuntu, Fedora etc? >> >> Jaap > > The GNOME live media has all downstream distribution branding removed - > these live images are only GNOME branded. There is no Foresight > branding present. > > Ken starting putting these together 3 years ago after GNOME hadn't had > any Live CDs created for a year or two. The other advantage is that > these are typically available day and date with GNOME's release (GNOME > 2.28 is the first time we haven't had an image made in a while). > > The live images are created using rPath's build service and are > available via the GNOME Dev Kit[1] and [2]. The GNOME Dev Kit was > maintained by Ken (and now Zhang Sen) and automatically builds the > latest GNOME from GNOME's git repo. > > If there are other volunteers who are willing to create live media and > can meet the requirements above, there's no reason why we couldn't > switch to a different provider. > > Paul > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDeveloperKit > [2] http://www.rpath.org/web/project/gnome/ > > Thanks these sound as very valid reasons :-) Jaap