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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,17:38 QUOTE

Of course, depending on the philosophical purity of the livecd, it may be difficult to get some types of hardware to be supported.

For example, does the Debian team approve of the "ndiswrapper" approach to wireless networking, or do they frown on it because it requires the use of non-GPL driver files?
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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,19:32 QUOTE

@cbagger

The debian live initiative is still semi-official, altough the two promoters are long time Debian developers.
I have already suscribed the mailing list, I myself cannot give you an authoritative answer.
I remind you that Debian has three package branches: main (the purest), contrib and non-free.
Unfortunately packages.debian.org is down but I remebers the ndiswrapper was in the testing sources


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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,21:41 QUOTE

I wish them much success. I have always had issues with the granularity of their package managment system. Again, I see a user's post wanting xcalc but the apt-get would want to install a ton of stuff. How would this work on a liveCD even with unionfs. Seems to me, it would require a huge machine to be able to truly dynamically add software. It is precisely this reason, why I developed the mydsl to allow easy addon applications in such an environment. However, my target, small footprint and old hardware, is much different than theirs. I expect that they, like most other Linux distributions will only get larger and demand much more capable hardware. It will be interesting to watch their development. There ceratinly is much knowledge and advancments from which to draw on.
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Posted: Mar. 14 2006,19:08 QUOTE

You might want to look at my post on their mailing list, where I advocate Knoppix and DSL:
http://lists.debian-unofficial.org/piperma....41.html
Notice Marco Amadori's "Do non worry".
Maybe if those who care about DSL but also about Debian participated to the project, we could lead the project itself into the right direction.


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