[64studio-devel] 64 Studio Live (amd64 build available)

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Daniel,

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Free,
  >>So I've thought that 64 Studio believers definitely want something to
  >>give their wondering friends

  DJ> This sounds very cool! A person asked at Lug Radio Live if we had
  DJ> something like this.

Exactly, it would very nice to always have a handful of live CDs at
these type of events.

  >>By now it's just a proof of concept with a few packages, the minimum
  >>you need to check if everything boots ok, X start and jack runs with
  >>no xrun. I'm building an amd64 version as well.

  DJ> I've a feeling that might be the only amd64 live multimedia distro
  DJ> currently available - I can't think of another one.

Me neither, by the way here's the amd64 build:

http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio-live_master_amd64.iso

  >>If everything is ok, I'll make new builds with new package (probably
  >>not all, because the size would end up to be around 1.5G, and I'd like
  >>keep this ISO below 700).

  DJ> Yes, I agree we should target CD-R with the live version, for those
  DJ> people who do not have a DVD burner. It could eventually be an
  DJ> alternative installer for older PCs too.

  DJ> While we are a performance-orientated distro, there are so many older
  DJ> machines which couldn't run Vista but are perfectly capable of tasks
  DJ> like vector graphic creation and MIDI sequencing.

  DJ> I'd like to hear from people on the list about which packages we
  DJ> should keep and which we should drop for the live version.

Yes, that would be very useful, we have about 250 spare megabytes to
fill..

Ciao,

Free