Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to send a reminder of the PLUG's West side meeting tonight. It
is at GCC at 17:00 hours. I apologize for cross posting. I will also have some
Cheesecake from Hans and will hopefully remember plates and forks! See the FAQ
for location
Austin
Summary - Customizing Knoppix
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Knoppix is a Debian based Live-on-CD Linux distribution. Just pop it in a
CD drive, reboot, and you have a fully functional Linux demo, rescue disk,
backup server or Linux Workstation. Anyone can make a custom Knoppix CD to
suit their needs. All you need is at least 6GB of hardrive space and about
1GB total RAM (physical + swap). A Knoppix disc can also be "branded" to
promote your LUG, company or product. A simple branding would only modify
the images and HTML on the original Knoppix disc.
This presentation will address the issues involved in making a Custom
Knoppix CD as well as branding Knoppix. I will also release some helpful
scripts that will aid in these tasks. In fact, to date, I have scripts
that enable me to brand a Knoppix disc just by running three scripts on a
Knoppix ISO (assuming you have the images prepared).
Check
http://uberhip.com/people/godber/plug/ for updates.
Bio
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Austin is a Faculty Research Associate in the Distributed Operating
Systems group at Arizona State University. He has published work on
802.11b network security and continues to work in the field among other
things. He graduated from ASU in 2000 with a BS in Physics where he
received an award for research in nuclear physics.
He has used Linux since 1995 (Linux Counter #29452) where he started off
with Slackware, moved to Redhat and now has largely switched to Debian
(via Knoppix), but is friend to all distributions, editors, programming
languages ... and of course ladies ;).
Yes, all of the above is true and only slightly exaggerated.
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