Idea for a unique distribution
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Idea for a unique distribution
started by: DoctorRocktopus
Posted by DoctorRocktopus on Sep. 01 2006,23:32
I didn't know where exactly to put this, but I have an idea for a way to distribute linux to a good number of people. Unfortunately, I am a horrible newbie who doesn't know the specifics of how to do this, but I do have skills that I think would contribute.My name is Andrew Foster, and I go by the stage name Doctor Rocktopus in a local music even called "Laptop Deathmatch". All of the music therein is, intuitively enough, made on laptops. Everyone that does it is fairly savvy, yet most people still use Windows or OSX. I still do as well, but I've been working on a simple looping sampler that does some of the simpler functionality of the earlier versions of < Ableton Live > in Pure Data. I love using Linux and I love the community, but have been stumped as to how to distribute it in a way that people connect with. When performing I have a bit of a captive audience, and I want to show off what Linux can do. More importantly, I would like to make all of my music Creative Commons licensed, and want to distribute the source Pure Data patches on my CD. This gave me another idea:
What if my CD was mixed mode? If people could pop it into their car CD player and listen to the music, then take it home and use the same disc to boot into the same environment I use to make my music with all of my source files included, I think that would make a compelling case for Linux in multimedia environments. Unfortunately, I don't know the details of making a bootable mixed-mode CD, but I think I want to make it DSL based, with XFCE, Pure Data, Supercollider, CSound, Rosegarden, JACK, Hydrogen, and Ardour (with probably a few more I'm forgetting at this instant). I would also like to enable HD-installs and full dpkg and apt-get. Is this doable, and, if so, can anyone help? I've messed around with remastering, but never very successfully.
Thanks for reading.
Posted by fioddor on Sep. 04 2006,18:20
It's a nice marketing idea 
And DSL should suit quite well your needs:
(a) it leaves much free space for you to add your tools
(b) it has a nice extension functionality that would help to attach them.
Unfortunately I'm no expert in the matter so I can't provide you with detailed information as I'd like to, but I've seen instructions on how to build a derivate/extended DSL CD, somewhere in this site...
Yeh, here:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=14863 >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki...._Source >
Good luck!