Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Live Distro for GFOSS meeting

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 20:00 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I am a Gentoo user since 2 years; for a meeting about GIS and OSS, i need to
> build a Live Distro to show some software.
> My colleagues told me to use knoppix and related distro, but i'd like to
> create with Gentoo. This distro should:
> Use KDE and use some softwares that is not in portage.
>
> Do you think that catalyst is the right chose for me?

No.  *Unless* you plan on writing ebuilds for everything that isn't in
portage and you're willing to write up your own fsscript for hacking up
the KDE stuff, since catalyst (at present) only has proper support for
using gdm as a display manager.  Of course, you could use gdm with KDE,
but that would be kinda scary.  ;]

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux