Interview: Jeremy Katz on Fedora Live CDs
This interview is the first of a series we’ll be co-publishing with Fedora Interviews. In this one, Jeremy Katz talks about improvements to Fedora Live CDs.
Live CDs are still something that are relatively new to the Fedora Project, but because of their integration to the build system and the user facing tools such as livecd-tools allowing for easy re-spinning, they’re a fairly central part of what Fedora can offer people. Could you give us a bit of background on this and explain the current state of live spins in Fedora 8?
Since the first official livecd release for Fedora Core 6, we’ve spent a lot of time on improving the tools used for building live images and helping to make them less of the “this is a quick hack job that works” into tools that actually can be built upon, maintained, etc. One of the big pieces there is around wanting to have reproducibility for your images–we accomplish this through using a kickstart config for the livecd definition.
Fedora 8 was really the first release where we were starting to have more people building livecds using the tools–the KDE SIG has been active in doing so since Fedora 7, but with Fedora 8, we also gained the Electronic Lab (FEL) spin, the Developer spin, and the XFCE spin.
In Fedora 9, one of the new features is persistence for Live USBs. Based on the impression I get, this is a feature that is in high demand and probably has quite a number of uses. Where did your motivation for working on this feature come from; was it the demand from the users, or were you scratching your own itch?
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