marius popa wrote:

> i think is time for firebird livecd maybe remastering ubuntu (debian)
>
> "Our ace in the hole was of course pg_live. Nobody else at Linux World,
> not even the mighty Oracle, had a CD that could boot up, auto configure
> itself and initialize its engine within 35 seconds. This live CD
> included replication with an unencumbered 8.0 engine included all the
> major procedural languages and paired with a php enabled apache web
> server with a postgres GUI client too. It also sported a window manager
> running on top of X. All this requiring less than 120mb of RAM.

I have managed to rework MoviX (movix.sf.net) distro to startup, run
Firebird and my own ncurses-based application off the CD. However, the
database had to be read-write so it had to be copyied on hard disk.

I might go back, and try to make it run completely in-memory, of
course with FlameRobin GUI. That is, if there is interest for this?

--
Milan Babuskov
http://fbexport.sourceforge.net
http://www.flamerobin.org