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Bootable Business Card Distro Needs Testing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-if-you're-gonna-be-sober-tonight dept.

dbarry writes "Many here have read recently about the FSF membership program. The much-coveted membership card is to be a version of the Bootable Business Card distribution. We are curently looking for testing of our pre-2.0 releases and automated builds. The 2.0 release of the LNX-BBC (and, thus, the FSF membership card) will use the powerful GAR build system to compile nearly all software on it from source code. As such it has changed greatly since the 1.618 release from 2001." Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership? :)

2 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. Tech TV by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a story about the Bootable Business Card on Tech TV a few months ago. Some mom was shopping her kid around to the talent agencies. Nice gimmick and all, except this BBC fucked over one agents computer. Due to the unusual shape, it got stuck in the drive. They tried it on the show, and it got stuck in theirs too.

    NOT exactly a good way to win friends, by giving them something that destroys their system...

  2. Re:I want to know..... by mark_lybarger · · Score: 4, Informative

    this doesn't seem to be a bootable working distro, just a bootable disk with source code to build and install your distro. it might let you repair your system a little if you can't boot your linux system, but it's not going to let you run kde and such without some serious efforts. this is more like the gentoo stage 1 install cd's. gentoo has a bootable cdrom (with some beta game on it too) which sounds more like what you're talking about.