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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am Montag 03 Januar 2011, um 22:59:30 schrieb Julien Lavergne:
> Hi Phill,
> 
> Le lundi 03 janvier 2011 à 05:53 +0000, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
> > I have a potential padawan to replace the one that vanished who would
> > like to learn about iso building / backporting etc. In return he will
> > assist the lubuntu team, it is still early days but he is favourable
> > towards lubuntu as his posting at
> > http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/05/lubuntu-1004-distro-review.html
> > shows. Whilst he is after his own flavour of ubuntu I think he would
> > worth while taking on. I'd like to permanently kidnap him, but he really
> > wants to learn about making a distro and has done a decent job of the
> > one he has. The reason he contacted me was for for how to do a minimal
> > install iso, I then proceeded to kidnap him.... well you need some one
> > else who can take some of the work load off of you. He has assured me
> > that he will not desert Lubuntu, in fact, I think it may be possible to
> > convince him to drop his project and become fully committed to lubuntu.
> 
> Well, I don't have really the time to teach people on how to build iso.
> I think also that people that will learn this knowledge will want to
> create their own distro, sooner or later. You probably noticed than we
> run out of devs recently on LXDE side, so devs time is precious :) I
> would like to teach backporting, which could be useful for everyone. But
> I still can't find the time to organise it, so iso bulding is currently
> out of the scope.

And of course there are lots of tutorials which show you how to build a live 
cd iso or even a minimal install cd. 
Backporting is another thing. This needs basically packaging skills first, and 
again there are lots of tutorials out there.