[每周一论]关于IBOX-LiveCD的未来

home_king

ibox LiveCD从构思到实现，现在想来，约摸费耗了我半年的时间，其中有相当多的时间用于ibox在虚拟机中的调试及其根文件系统的软件包编译上面。可谓路漫漫也。

现在ibox已经出到0.2-final版本了，而且提供给兄弟们构建LiveCD的ibox-builder，以及应大家的需求，编写了ibox-installer以方便硬盘安装，算是完成了我原来的目标——弘扬Gentoo的易用性以及灵活性。

再过几个月，我就要毕业。可能没有时间再去升级ibox了，我能做的可能就是厚积薄发，慢慢地去发现或者构造新的LiveCD亮点。

我心目中还有两个问题，说来大家听听。

1. ibox名字取得可能不好，sourceforge上已经有ibox的开源项目，也有一家公司的机顶盒产品为ibox，甚至有一种邮件应用服务器也叫ibox，冲突太多了。我想要改改名字了。大家帮忙提个意见以供我参考。谢谢。

2. 我会为ibox做一个官方网站，以org为顶级域名，二级域名还没有想好，大家也帮忙想想（也是出于冲突的考虑）。我会使用中文drupal来营建网站，类似我的好友hiweed的网站。

在此感谢众位对ibox-LiveCD的支持。或许，ibox未来可能不复存在，但是希望ibox内涵的DIY精神可以给予兄弟们一点点启示。谢谢。 :thank

EricNeon

我想了个名称：SigenBox,意即：为有共同特殊观点及要求的人所做的系统。读音上也可以知道基于gen（too）。

hutigers

homebox吧。
home-king的前边

midx

iGENGOO或者iGEN

daqie

叫kingtoo好了，呵呵

实体

iTOO（读I TOOL,我的工具）

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Post by hutigers
homebox吧。
home-king的前边

嘿嘿 :cool: 家有贱兔！
叫IBOX习惯了 名字很重要吗？ :ask

islandstar

gentoo-box

Debentoo Gao

EasyGentoo怎么样？或者是E-Gentoo

d00m3d

>再过几个月，我就要毕业。可能没有时间再去升级ibox了

Oh, no!

>我能做的可能就是厚积薄发，慢慢地去发现或者构造新的LiveCD亮点。

Look forward to seeing it. ;)

>2. 我会为ibox做一个官方网站，以org为顶级域名，二级域名还没有想好，大家也帮忙想想（也是出于冲突的考虑）。我会使用中文drupal来营建网站，类似我的好友hiweed的网站。

Good choice, drupal is a very nice CMS.

>在此感谢众位对ibox-LiveCD的支持。或许，ibox未来可能不复存在，但是希望ibox内涵的DIY精神可以给予兄弟们一点点启示。谢谢。

Refer to the introduction of iBOX, you did not create it for fun, did you?

教主，hyoga兄 asked you the following question in http://www.linuxsir.cn/bbs/showt ... p;page=14&pp=15

作者: hyoga
诶？俺怎么没有早点看见这么好的东西啊，比konppix如何啊？

And you replied:

knoppix是LIVECD之母，自然有很多经典的特色。
IBOX希望能将这些特色继往开来，同时提供很多好的双刃剑给予用户选择。

And then, I suggest you to consider:

how may you differentiate iBox from the other LiveCDs?

I noticed distrowatch.com reported many one-man distros were failed due to various reasons.  However, there seems to have some common points, many failure projects were just me-too, derivatives of existing distros or started development for certain good reasons but eventually lost the directions or positions.

I rised this question because I worried that iBOX might lack a concrete model of development.   Sorry, this term seems a little bit academic.  Here, I am refering "a model of development" as the operation mode that drives and maintains your development such that you can reach certain goal by well defined "markets" and "positions" and, of course, supports from people.

For example, if we look at Hiweed Debian, we can notice Hiweed has a very clear goal.  Hiweed has Desktop edition, Server edition and a LiveCD targeting various "markets" and people.

I believe iBOX can achieve further leap of success.  Don't let it down.

Anyway, 教主，you should be very proud for the creation of iBOX.  I really appreciated for your hard works and your kindness.

Cheers!