BW )(: Bristol Wireless Live Distro

[Matthew Edmondson]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:07 +0000, Ben Green wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:50:16 -0000, Adam Cheasley <adam.cheasley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > Sorry to jump into this but the subject line caught my eye. Am I
> > right in thinking that you guys have made your own distro? If so
> > where can I find it to download it?
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> 
> It's not really a distro as such, but a meta package and an extra repository. You go from a standard debian etch install then add the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> #uk-based public repository
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://repo.bristolwireless.net/bw etch contrib
> 
> and do an apt-get update, then apt-get install bristolwireless
> 
> The next account you add will have the "Bristol Wireless Desktop", an xfce variant, will also be member of useful groups for system control. If you add that user to the powerusers group, you will be able to ammend you menu bar and stuff like that.
> 
> Note that this does make some fundamental additions you your sources.list when you install it. It needs a lot more documentation.
> 

Its really impressive, esp when you are near the BW repo's.

I like many aspects of this distro, its like a complete desktop Debian
install, with most of the bits 'normal' users need.

> Cheers,
> 
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