[Scribus] Anyone interested in this?

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

* Thomas Templin <lists at gnuwhv.de> [2005-04-30 23:21:13 +0200]:

> On Saturday 30 April 2005 18:53, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>
> But I would suggest a knoppix based live cd.
> 
> - You will find much more people who are familiar in building
>   Knoppix based live cds than others like RH FC4 Live.
> 
> - Knoppix >= Version 3.8 comes along with unionfs which allows to
>   add applications during a live session. 
> 
> Bye,
> Thomas

I started work on a Knoppix 3.7-based live DTP CD a few weeks ago with a goal
of having a small live CD that I could quickly update the scribus 1.2.x and
1.3cvs packages as I make the Debian packages anyways. I did a CD-like HD
install inside a qemu image, removed a lot of non-DTP stuff and added some,
but not all software that mrdocs suggested to me. Unfortunately I couldn't
build a remastered image despite numerous attempts - the mkisofs would always
crash inside qemu. I thought it was a qemu-related problem, but wasn't able to
troubleshoot it. Then I've downloaded a Knoppix 3.8 image and made appropriate
partitions on another computer that recently became available to me. I made a
2 week break due to workload, but I still intend to go through the process I
went with 3.7 with this version. For the reference, I was using a how-to
located at http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo.
However, this time I am thinking of following the classic remastering guide
located at http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto.

My goals:

- Knoppix-based live CD with the smallest subset of packages from the full CD
  that are needed for its function.

- Up-to-date Scribus, gimp, inkscape, batik, and other DTP-related packages.

- Regular "releases" - both timed and on-demand if someone needs such a live
  CD for a presentation or whatever.

Achieving the above goals is really not hard thanks to the debian package
management tools. The only problem so far has been to get the remaster to
build.

I added a Live DTP CD page to the wiki.scribus.net. Please provide your input.
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Live_DTP_CD

If someone really wants to do it I would have not problem with it. I could
provide up-to-date Debian scribus packages to this person on-demand and let
them update other packages and generate/test ISOs.

Regards,

Alex.