Re: [debian-knoppix] Integration of Knoppix in Debian
>From Dirk Eddelbuettel on Thursday, 2003-07-24 at 16:41:41 -0500:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:11:49PM +0200, baldyeti wrote:
> > According to the linuxtag program as presented in the "news"
> > section of debian.org, "Integration of Knoppix in Debian" was
> > the title of a talk given in Karlsruhe. Can someone in the know
> > shed some light on this? Is the intention to adopt knoppix as
> > a basis for a future debian installer?
>
> Google for Andreas Tille, as well as maybe for Knoppix and/or Debian; he has
> been spearheading that idea and, if I recall, gave previous talks about it.
>
> It certainly won't be the new installer as the installer has to work on all
> architectures of a release, which was six the last time and maybe a dozen
> the next time, whereas Knoppix, as we know it, only supports one.
>
> If I recall, Andreas just wants to make 'making' Knoppix easier based on
> existing packages, and feed more of Knoppix back into Debian, and what have
> you. He leads the debian-med effort and remasters Knoppix, just like I do
> with Quantian, but as his attentian span in longer than mine, he thinks more
> deeply about infrastructure and tools.
To put Andreas' idea into sharp focus, picture the following possibility.
Instead of downloading a Knoppix CD, you install debian over the network,
from CD, or whatever way you like, with configuration files from knoppix.net.
A script makes your installation into an .iso image and voila! you have
a Knoppix CD. Now instead of providing us with CDs, Klaus has to provide
us with configuration files.
There is no reason that I know of that this could not be made to work
for all architectures supported by Debian. Of course it is a lot of work!
But the idea itself is I believe a good one.
Conrad
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