When I asked John to build livecd images the original goal was to have something to take to FISL so that developers could do some development on the laptops. John and Tomeu (one of the other wonderful sugar developers) were going to go down there and hold some tutorials and work with interested developers. But to be honest, I didn’t expect the link to end up on engadget or slashdot, but they did. And I am a bit overwhelmed. The server that the images are hosted on is there for developers to download test images. That server is currently cranking out about 160MB/sec of livecd images (yes, that’s bytes not bits) and is bound by the gigabit NIC that’s in the machine.
John wrote this spiffy little activity launcher for developers that lets them have a little mini-gnome environment to move files around and be able to launch gnome terminals. And it was built using the really nice custom livecd development tools we have as part of the Fedora project. (The implication being that anyone can do this if they want on top of our free tools.) Once he’s back from FISL I’m sure John would love contributions on how to make that environment better for people who want to hack on new activities for the laptop.
I would also love to hear feedback on the images themselves. Did they work in your vmware/qemu/parallels instances? We tend to test them on qemu, but don’t do a lot of testing with other emulators. Plus, it’s probably hard to get networking up and running. Usually you have to switch to the console (ctrl-alt-1 in qemu I believe) and then do an ifup eth0 to get the virtual networking up and running. But feedback is important. What would help let everyone see what the envionment can do? Ask away, this is a good a forum as any. We’ll be generating sdk images for each stable snapshot that we do until production so get your comments in early and often!
Update: I originally posted 122k downloads. That should have been 122k attempts, 13k actual downloads.
