From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FWI3U-0000vA-GL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:09:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3JJAEDd022015; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:10:14 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3JJADGF005076 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:10:13 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id k3JJAfv6000301 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:10:41 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:08:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Live Distro for GFOSS meeting From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200604192000.12544.luca.casagrande@gmail.com> References: <200604192000.12544.luca.casagrande@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-cmONdedSvPR2SpmLahGu" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:08:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1145473702.17440.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 X-Archives-Salt: 2beed918-4835-42c8-b67e-315afad46216 X-Archives-Hash: c620b0dd0458c8fba15cb0590355d426 --=-cmONdedSvPR2SpmLahGu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 20:00 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote: > Hi guys! > I am a Gentoo user since 2 years; for a meeting about GIS and OSS, i need= to=20 > build a Live Distro to show some software. > My colleagues told me to use knoppix and related distro, but i'd like to=20 > create with Gentoo. This distro should: > Use KDE and use some softwares that is not in portage. >=20 > Do you think that catalyst is the right chose for me? No. *Unless* you plan on writing ebuilds for everything that isn't in portage and you're willing to write up your own fsscript for hacking up the KDE stuff, since catalyst (at present) only has proper support for using gdm as a display manager. Of course, you could use gdm with KDE, but that would be kinda scary. ;] --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-cmONdedSvPR2SpmLahGu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBERoqmkT4lNIS36YERAuo+AJ0dqtUrzEw9UKO9gGXQzkUd6DM6rACfV3t+ 3pK7ljY7XSSs1fQ+k655ds0= =DB8h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cmONdedSvPR2SpmLahGu-- -- gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org mailing list