Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD (stable builds available)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:10:14AM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I did install on a partition and i do have a few technical questions.

Thank you, Dan.  My silly overengineering with r8168 driver has
been sorted out, and here are the images built on stable branch
in addition to the ever-changing Sisyphus based ones:
http://en.altlinux.org/Starterkits/gnustep

Translation of the opennet.ru announce in Russian:

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Updated experimental builds of ALT Linux starterkits with GNUstep
and Window Maker are available.  These have been created to help
those interested in having a look at this unusual environment
having its roots within NeXTSTEP system and being related to
OSX/iOS, and to provide those willing to install such an
operating system with installable media (e.g. to tinker with
porting ObjC code to Linux).

These are hybrid LiveCDs for 32/64-bit x86 PCs with BIOS or UEFI;
ISO images are suitable for optical media or USB flash (use dd).
256M RAM or more recommended.

SysVinit and systemd-based images built upon t7 branch repository
supported by ALT Linux Team along with company-supported Platform 7
one are provided; mkimage-profiles and mkimage tools ensure easy
switch between these "building blocks" and easy derivatives.
---

Reactions were varying from "gorgeous!" to "you won't setup
an office girl with this" to "you won't sell it unless it's slick
and pretty out-of-box" (as if I was selling these images in the
first place, heh).

Maybe some sort of user experience "bootstrap" is due, any kind
of advice including "how could you miss the $URL" is much welcome
(I'm a seasoned WM user but rather newbie to GS).

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