The GNOME live medias (GLM) are CDs, DVDs, images, etc. and contain all the latest and greatest GNOME software. They provide a great way to test and show of GNOME without requiring to install it on your PC.
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GNOME offers a number of different ways to test or try GNOME in the environment of your choice. These are all "Live" systems, meaning full Linux systems with GNOME included using various virtualization technologies. The current Live Media for download are based on GNOME 2.18 (release notes).
GNOME 2.18 Live Media (GLM)
- Integrates all available language on one live CD.
- Language is switched by selecting a language on login screen.
Bug Reports: http://issues.foresightlinux.org/browse/GLM
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Usages
The live Cds have been used in the past at including Linux World Expo Boston, OSCON, and GUADEC to demo GNOME.
- Use the LiveCD on a laptop as a demo machine, to show to people at conference booths.
- Hand out nicely printed medias in a local language.
- Customize the splash screen, default languages.
- Have an environment for projects to base their live media on.
Some things we'd like to see, but aren't sure have happened yet:
- Hand it out at a local LUG when you're giving a talk about how good GNOME is.
Image (Vmware, Qemu, Parallels, etc.)
The benefits for Gnome development (also compared to a LiveCD) are:
- Players are available also on Windows as Mac
- the developer can easily (compared to LiveCD) a virtual machine and customise by removing unneeded parts to make it small
- no need to burn a CD
- faster to boot than CD as it resides on the hard disk
closing the player (VmwarePlayer) saves the state of the virtual machine, resume by opening it
- you can set the resolution by default to 800x600, which is friendly to screenshots (current resolution is 1024x768)
- you can even take screenshot of GDM (striking out as there is an issue with getting GDM running)
- screenshots are saved either on the host OS or from within the virtual machine
- translators will be able to test their translations
- demonstration tool for new users to easily try GNOME
- tool for journalists to try out GNOME
- ...
Tools for generating Live Media
Kadischi (Fedora)
Reconstructor (Ubuntu)
rBuilder (rPath)
mklivecd (Mandriva)
Discussion
For more discussion on creating Gnome Live Media or it's uses, visit the GnomeLiveMediaDiscussion wiki page.
