Re: call me when you finally get the CDs

Hello Micheal,

On February 28, 2005 03:39 am, you wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 15:47 schrieben Sie:
> > I'll give you a run down on what's on it and the features you can
> > profile.
>
> The CDs were delivered a few minutes ago.

Let's start with this: http://sraapowergres.com/en/newsletter/issue_02/index.php?article=pg_live.inc.html

Short points you can say about the CD:
- will boot up and be ready to run in less than 30 seconds

- RAM required: 120mb with gui, 90mb console mode (haven't tested below this amount of RAM)

- will take advantage of any existing swap drives it finds on the computer, otherwise everything is in RAM

- has a running 8.0 database engine in RAM

- SLONY has been compiled into the RDBMS

- has half a dozen procedural languages compiled (includes trusted and untrusted): plpgsql, plperl , plpython, pltcl, plphp

- has a running apache with php environment

- it uses an extremely/light windows manager (fluxbox)

- has a GUI client that you can interface through the webserver, phppgadmin

- full documentation includes: standard postgres references, an open source book, numerous howtos (written by Robert Bernier)

- will become network aware if connected through a nic (not wireless)

- contains numerous services including SSH, FTP etc...

- has multimedia capabilities i.e will play mp3

- has a complete suite of tools on the CD for administrating a network

- Inserting the CD while you are in windows will activate the PostgreSQL 8.0 installer for the microsoft platform complete with a GUI client, i.e. pgadmin3

- there are no competing live CDs of any kind (commercial or opensource) of DBMS currently in existence

The distribution is currently in english however there is an unlinked set of postgres documentation in French (can't remember off hand the url to access it).

Another thing, the CD is not designed to be copied to the harddrive.

I let the people play with it on a P-II that I had on the table