Fedora Remix Paul W. Frields Fedora Project Leader CA-LUG, 11 Feb 2009 Very excited to be here Thank the entire FOSSMeet team for their help in setting up this talk The Fedora Project is proud to help sponsor this conference, spreading FOSS A little about me: * Worked with Linux for >10 years * Joined Fedora Project in 2003 as a volunteer * Inaugural Board member in 2006 * February – Red Hat full time as FPL This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) 3.0 license, except where otherwise noted.

What is a remix?

Fedora core values

Your own selection of packages

Your own customizations

Selected updates

All optional!

Leverage existing technologies

Anaconda’s “kickstart”

Words to the wise <!-- space hungry --> /var/cache /tmp destination directory

pungi $ su -c “pungi --config=<KICKSTART_FILE> --all-stages”

kickstart file ► install discs

pungi options <!-- personal builds --> --nosplitmedia to avoid CDs --nosource to forget about SRPMs --cachedir to point to packages on disk

pungi hints <!-- think about I/O --> Local file caches == good Edit kickstart repositories Add to %packages as desired

Live image tools:

kickstart file ► live image

livecd-creator $ su -c “livecd-creator --config=<KICKSTART_FILE>”

livecd-creator hints <!-- size doesn’t matter --> -b option for “based on” local disk repos faster

livecd-iso-to-disk $ su -c “livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb <MB> <ISO_FILE> <USB_STICK_DEVICE>

persistence

non-destructive

secure

LiveUSB Creator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

Branding

Fedora Remix to the rescue!

http://tinyurl.com/ba8hqc

Generic packages

Questions?

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