amaroK LiveCD

Well, after 35 iso images, amaroK LiveCD version 1.2.1 looks done. I am doing some final testing but I should be able to get it distributed tomorrow. This has been quite an interesting project for me, mostly because it is the first contribution other than bug reporting and documentation I have made to an OSS project. I am not a coder, so the most I can usually contribute is bug testing, money and encouragement (complaints). I learned a lot, made some friends and had a lot of fun.

Thanks to Mark, Max and Chris for making this such an easy thing to contribute, to Kobsession and Tightcode for your assistance with artwork (why do graphic artists never use their real names), to all the people that tested this, to Texstar for making PCLinuxOS so easy to work with and packaging so many things upon request, to Tom Kelly for maintaining the mklivecd scripts and to everyone else that I annoyed over the last three weeks.

Things I learned:

- How to remove too many packages from a linux installation and end up with an unbootable system
- How to make a syslinux bootscreen with gif2lss
- How to make a bootsplash theme
- Why the Creative Commons licenses are really cool
- How to use cd-rw's instead of cdr's when working on a Live CD project
- How to use scp (never heard of it, but it is cool)
- How to make a torrent and get a tracker running

and I got a much better understanding of how ALSA works.

Check it out at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/AmaroK_Live

Now, what do I do with all these iso images?