Remaster Knoppix without Remastering

Google Tech Talks
April, 10 2008

ABSTRACT

If you have used Knoppix long enough, you have probably eventually decided
you would like to tweak it to add a setting or package. Most people resort
to the full remastering process--uncompressing and changing the loopback
file system--and are faced with a complicated, time-consuming process. In
this talk Kyle Rankin will discuss a number of different methods you can
use to change Knoppix's default behavior while bypassing the compressed
loopback file system.

Speaker: Kyle Rankin
Kyle Rankin is a senior system administrator for Quinstreet, Inc., the
current president of the North Bay Linux Users' Group, the author of
Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu
Hacks and has contributed to a number of other O'Reilly books. Kyle is also
a columnist for Linux Journal and has had articles featured in PC Magazine,
TechTarget, and other publications.

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[autonomous2010]

woman can use linux too. lol

[Smink75]

Very good stuff. I will be trying a few of these ideas out. Knoppix is a great choice as far as live cd's because it seems to be alot lighter then ubuntu. Runs smoother on older machines with older hardware. Thanks for the very helpful presentation.

[ESCOMMODORE64]

Close captioned is needed to be included to this video, since it's amazing presentation.

[velvethandofdarkness]

I disagree with your comments on Ubuntu. Google for REMASTERSYS and use that with Ubuntu. With REMASTERSYS you can make great Live CD/DVDs or distro CD/DVDs based off what YOU install, give it a try, unless I'm responding to a troll.

[spiderbaby1958]

This can't be a Linux meeting. There's a cute girl there!

[spiderbaby1958]

I'm just repeating something I read, but corporate liability is pretty much a myth. You won't get it with Knoppix, you won't get it with Ubuntu, and you won't get it with Microsoft, either.

And the Ubuntu CDs are pretty crappy as live CDs. I know because I just spent a week remastering every Ubuntu CD, and they were all fairly sluggish. They're really cool as demonstrator-installers, but they're not the powerful versitle tool that knoppix is.

[pokstad]

I think it would be more useful to cover customizing the Ubuntu CD since it provides a better alternative to businesses that want to use a product with corporate liability.

[vivacarlie]

why don't they ever put a link to the slides they use?

[hamestersmiley]

5 stars for sound and picture quality. remarkable improvement by googletechtalks channel. now i could enjoy this presentaion.