This is a collaborative wiki to gather information and to discuss technologies used to produce a complex framework to enable production of official Debian Live systems?FootNote(semi-official builds are already in place at project url.), that uses as much as possible official Debian packages and, for optional hard disk installation, the DebianInstaller.

A Debian Live system is a [http://www.debian.org Debian] operating system preinstalled on a media, that does not require a classical installer to be used (?LiveDistro). It comes on media, like a cdrom, a ["usb stick"], or over a network.

The development process defined the key technologies to implement the rootfs generation and the whole image generation (["DebianLive/make-live"]).

Key technologies adopted so far includes a debian version?FootNote(Although they should diverge for a very few lines after ubuntu's not so frequents re-merges.) of casper (["DebianLive/casper"]) from Ubuntu to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of readonly rootfs (squashfs, ext2 and plain directory?FootNote(Mainly used for netboot.)) made writable by a unions (unionfs) with a ramdisk or customizable writable fs.

Resources for information is http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ and to discuss are this wiki, the IRC channel #debian-live at oftc ( irc://irc.oftc.net/#debian-live/ ) and the mailing [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel list].

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