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From: mike forbes (mike.forbes@gmail.com)
Date: Sat 05 Mar 2005 - 11:29:31 NZDT


Hm, I'll take a look
I currently use gentoo here at home and so far its great :)



On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:35:36 +1300, Chilling_Silence
<Chilling_Silence@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Nope, I took, the quick and Easy route of Remastering NavynOS.
> 
> The guy already had some nice tools etc there on it and I wasnt sure if
> Catalyst was all I wanted. Somebody said that this wasnt done with Catalyst?
> 
> This has had a lot of ideas stolen from n00b feedback on Ubuntu and
> Knoppix, like Gnome, Gaim, Firefox, XMMS, gMplayer, and it wouldnt be
> linux without Frozen-Bubble ;-)
> That and Ive changed the default theme, so that in the words of a
> first-time Gnome user it doesnt "look like various shades of dog poo".
> 
> If it all goes well, I may end up doing on from scratch, may end up just
> modifying NavynOS some more - We'll see.
> 
> Got 7 people on the torrent so far, so its no long being limited by my
> 128kbps sorry excuse for upload speeds.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Chill.
> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> >great fun isn't it! did you use catalyst? I have used it once or twice. I
> >made some custom boot cd's to turn windows boxes into distcc hosts for a
> >gentoo installfest we did here, I wanted something with exactly the right
> >versions of gcc/binutils/distcc. No X or anything, I thought  i'd give
> >that a spin sometime.
> >
> >On Sat, March 5, 2005 2:11 am, Chilling_Silence said:
> >
> >
> >>Greetings,
> >>
> >>Ive been working on a Gentoo-based LiveCD.
> >>
> >>Ive had a friend or two ask me for a n00b-friendly LiveCD Distro, and
> >>having been unsuccessful in my hunt for one that suits my/their tastes,
> >>I decided to start working on my own
> >>72 hours later, here I am, CD in-hand!
> >>
> >>It boots, works, looks great! Im getting an error when Gnome launches
> >>(I'll fix in next build), but otherwise it looks really smooth.
> >>
> >>If there's anybody keen to check it out and give me some feedback,
> >>that'd be much appreciated:
> >>http://www.dimension.net.nz/chills.iso.torrent
> >>
> >>First build, room for improvement, but my first LiveCD ever to be
> >>successfully made into an ISO and subsequently boot! Im very pleased.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>
> >>Chill.
> >>
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