A First Gnucash LiveCD

[Derrick Hudson]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:43:50PM -0800, Mark Gannon wrote:
| Folks,
| 
| I've put together the LiveCD perviously discussed on this list using the 
| Morphix Live CD project.

This is very cool.  This makes GnuCash so much more available to a
wider audience of people, particularly less technical people who are
not already using Linux.

Imagine combining this with VMWare Player
(http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) and this LiveCD Virtual
Appliance (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/284) to
allow current Windows users to use GnuCash without even rebooting!

| This CD is a standard Debian Sid implementation without many of the 
| applications (e.g OpenOffice and multimedia applications).  USB drives do 
| work, however, mounting the drive as the home directory of the user turns out 
| not to be practical.  When I do that, graphical applications that are 
| expecting configuration files in the home directory are unable to find them 
| and refuse to start.  USB drives will automount and can be accessed via the 
| computer icon on the desktop.  

Did you include SMB/CIFS support?  I think that would be very
beneficial for (potential) users who are running Windows and run the
Live CD using VMWare.  This would allow them to store the data files
in their "My Documents" or wherever they feel comfortable on the host
Windows system.

-Derrick

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