A first version of LiveTLCOS is now finished, and seems to work great. The build system has been adopted so that TLCOS and LiveTLCOS uses the same build infrastructure. The LiveTLCOS only consists of 30 or so extra lines in the Makefile. I haven't tried minimizing it, but it currently weights in at 231 MB. This is less than our Knoppix-based LiveCD, which was roughly 300 MB. NetworkManager (see bug 2711) is included. WLAN, graphics, sound etc seems to work out-of-the-box on my Dell and Calmblads Fujtsu-Siemens laptop. If we want to "ship" this LiveCD, this is what remains: * The Grub screen should use the TL splash. Currently, it uses the Fedora splash. * Ship lightscribe images, README etc in the CD root, as for our other CDs. Unless any critical bugs appear, I believe we are finished for this development cycle.
I've created a LiveTLCOS for TUG today, as a "summer present". Let's see what the feedback will be. I'm quite keen on making LiveTLCOS a part of ThinLinc, perhaps for 2.2. One interesting idea is to combine the LiveTLCOS and TLCOS into one single ISO-file. As far as I can tell, this shouldn't be very hard. The LiveTLCOS only contains a few files: /mnt/isolinux /mnt/isolinux/boot.cat /mnt/isolinux/initrd0.img /mnt/isolinux/isolinux.bin /mnt/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /mnt/isolinux/memtest /mnt/isolinux/splash.jpg /mnt/isolinux/vesamenu.c32 /mnt/isolinux/vmlinuz0 /mnt/LiveOS /mnt/LiveOS/osmin.img /mnt/LiveOS/squashfs.img The isolinux meny could be extended with one additional entry for booting "live". The ISO will of course grow with something like 225 MB or so, but that would give us an ISO that's ~640 MB - quite OK. There might be additional packages to remove also.
TLCOS was deprecated in 4.1.0 and has now been removed.
