[Live-demo] 3.0rc4 is online

[Hamish]

Alex wrote:
> ISO (3.5GB) and VM (3.9GB compressed 7z ultra,9GB expanded)
> are both available online. This vm seems to play nice with VMWare
> Server and the graphical login works. I also tossed up the logs
> and a screenshot of the desktop.

excellent, thanks!


> Hamish, sorry the way we build right I have to be logged in to run all
> the scripts so I'm not sure how to not be logged or be a different user
> just for the panel part. I'll have to think about that some more.

some ideas-

I've adjusted the script so it can be re-run after-the fact now, but the
icons need to be in the main ~/Desktop/ dir. (they can be moved back
there using the script I posted to the ML a few days back.)

hmm maybe much easier -- can you right click on the top panel, add a new
Xfce menu (mouse icon), once added right click on it, properties, and
select "custom menu" and then pick /usr/local/share/xfce/xfce-osgeo.menu.

If all went well the menu and icons should be there, just dormant.

If you create a new user account and log in do you see the menu, button
for terminal, cpu monitor, etc?

can you do ctrl-alt-f2 to run it without X? should we install fluxbox
or some other small-footprint WM as scaffolding to work from?

I had thought about `killall xfce-panel` and then reload it after as
part of the install script, but I'm not convinced that is a good idea,
and it would not work for xfce-session which might have to be stopped
as well(?).


> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc4/
> 
> Don't mind the .html at the end of those listing, they are temporary
> redirects since the current images aren't on the osgeo servers.

fyi along with the tightness of space on the main download server a big
reason not to host the rc builds there is due to the backup scripts.
mirroring those files around the place eats up a lot of hardware I/O
which can't be renice'd away. Having that happen once for the final cut
is ok, but once a week during release month gets to be a bit much.
(AFAIUI)



regards,
Hamish