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Fedora Goes Live

Fedora Goes Live

Postby rippinchikkin » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:21 am

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By Sean Michael Kerner
August 29, 2006

Ever wanted to run Fedora Core Linux as a Live CD? Well now you can. Though Red Hat's sponsored community distribution, Fedora Core, includes a lot of applications and has an easy-to-use installer, it has long been missing a critical piece, namely a Live CD.

The Live Fedora CD is a product of the FedoraUnity.org community group, which is composed of site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors and interested users. The Live CD is part of the Fedora Unity "re-spins," which are ISOs of Fedora Core releases with additional up-to-date applications already bundled in. With a Live CD, users can run Fedora from their media drives without the need to actually physically install the OS on their hard drives.

"The biggest item in my opinion is a newer (2.6.17-1.2174) kernel," Fedora Unity Co-Founder Bob Jensen told internetnews.com. "This brings added hardware support for those who had issues with the initial Fedora Core 5 release. "Naturally there are many more update packages like KDE and gnome also," Jensen added. "What we do is take the initial ISO merge in the updates and rebuild the anaconda installer around the new package payload."

A Live Fedora CD has been one of the most requested projects by Fedora users, according to Fedora community member Jack Aboutboul. It has, however, been a project that for various reasons hasn't quite come to the fore via the Fedora Project.

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