1. 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
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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
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2. What is a remix?

3. Fedora core values

5. Your own selection of packages

6. Your own customizations

7. Selected updates

8. All optional!

9. Leverage existing technologies

10. Anaconda’s “kickstart”

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

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

13. kickstart file ► install discs

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

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

16. Live image tools:

17. kickstart file ► live image

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

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

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

21. persistence

22. non-destructive

23. secure

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

25. Branding

26. Fedora Remix to the rescue!

28. Generic packages

29. Questions?