Brent Baude

I've just released a new LiveCD for PS3. Unlike the previous LiveCD, this one does not support the PowerMacs--only the PS3. Also, this LiveCD is based on the window manager XFCE4 (the prior LiveCD used Gnome). I felt like a lighter, faster window manager would be worth trying and I am definitely looking for feedback from users.

This version of the LiveCD contains Mozilla-Firefox-2, Mozilla-Thunderbird-2 (beta), koffice, xchat-2, Gaim, Audacious, among others.

The LiveCD can be found on the Gentoo mirrors in experimental/ppc64/livecd/. To find the Gentoo mirror nearest you, check out:

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml

I have also been experimenting with putting the contents of the LiveCD onto a USB memory stick. This works fairly well with the exception of some kboot shortcomings related to how kboot searches for its configuration files. This process should be more like udev or perhaps using the busybux mdev. I need to talk with the Gentoo-relengs to see how they do this with their own install-cds, and then maybe adapt kboot to follow suit. The net of this is that I have put together a short how-to for running the LiveCD from USB storage. It can be found on the the wiki at:

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell