====== Remastersys: Make your own livecd ======

Date: 28th August\\
Hosted By: Michael Pope

This is great for those wanting to keep a backup or create a distro.  There are two ways to run remastersys.  

Create a live cd with your system and data intact
  remastersys backup

Create a distro with no data included
  remastersys distro

Presentation notes: {{workshops:20090828_mlug.pdf|}}

===== Cool things =====
Every week from now on we will have the cool things of this month.  Here are mine for this month.

Great reviews, tutorials and podcasts: http://www.tuxradar.com

KleanSweep, clean disk easily, web: http://linux.bydg.org/~yogin

SMPlayer - cool frontend to mplayer

Sockso music server, play your music over the internet great for parties,\\
http://sockso.pu-gh.com/

Spicebird, email client which does much more than thunderbird, contact, calendar, tasks\\
Web: www.spicebird.com/download

Super Grub Disk, mini boot disk (400KB download), easy menu driven grub install/rescue.\\
web: http://supergrubdisk.org


The software distribution system that works differently.
rootz mounts complete live distros over the web, and makes them available locally.
rootz - http://vamosproject.org/rootz

BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk www.giannone.eu/bgtlb/current
    * You need at least a 386 machine (fpu not neccessary) with 4 mb ram to run BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk.
    * Fits on floppy disk.

Blueproximity - locks up the screen when you walk away from your computer with a bluetooth enabled phone.  Good from a security aspect.  http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net
stuffed up, doesn't really unlock.

Made using Ruby on Rails http://meetinbetween.us/

http://susestudio.com/ - customise your own distro and try it out online.

Remastersys - Easy Live CDs for Ubuntu/Debian.\\
http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html

Ubuntu Customisation Kit- Even easier Live CD creation,  Web: http://uck.sourceforge.net
    * Works by customising a ISO image so you don't need to setup a system to create your live cd's
    * Unpacks ISO and allows you to install software, then repacks the ISO


Wammu, manage your phone through linux the easy way.\\
Web: http://wammu.eu

Zile, cut down emacs for saving space.\\
Web: www.gnu.org/software/zile

open font library - share fonts (Like open clip art)

OpenClipart which is usable: http://testvm.openclipart.org/cchost/

KDE 4.3 was released, which is just a polish of features.

Perl Audio Converter - http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/ - batch convert from one file format to another easier.