freekbox3 installer CD

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just wanted to let folks know about the work on freegeek's freekbox3
distribution.

there's been renewed interest in collaborating on a desktop distribution
amoung the various freegeeks: portland, oregon(the original) and
olympia, washington and columbus, ohio (no non-US freegeeks yet ...)

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Distro
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/FreekBox

the freekbox3 is primarily a KDE-based distribution, but the folks from
columbus have proposed a gnome-oriented variant, too.

i built a debian-installer CD image using simple-cdd. it's able to
install the freekbox3, as well as a number of other system types, such
as the freekbox3-gnome variant, a baseserver profile, and a lessdisks
server, although the freekbox3 profile is the only one that's really
complete with debconf pre-seeding and post-install configuration.

it's just under 700MB, and available as a bittorrent download:

http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/freekbox3-multi-profile_20050821-2.iso.t=
orrent

a gpg-signed (by me) md5sum file for both the torrent and .iso:

http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/freekbox3-multi-profile_20050821-2.md5su=
ms


will probably be making another image sometime in the next couple weeks.

if you have feedback, please contact: [email protected]


also interested in defining additional profiles for simple-cdd, if you
have package lists and debconf selections, they could be included as
examples for simple-cdd.

we could maybe make a debian-np installer separate from the freekbox3...
though in the end it would be nice to have a single CD to do Desktop
Systems, Application Servers, Internet (web/mail/etc) Servers, etc. if
we can fit it all :)

live well,=20
  vagrant

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