Live CD Updates

OK, network config (at least the ethernet config part)  is working
perfectly now, and I can connect through the Internet without any kind
of problems with my DIAS connection. I will be posting screenshots of
the config tool very soon. Now I need to test the Dial Up and WLAN
config part. (I need to get an
external modem from somewhere before anything else).
Just executing xhost + 
did the trick. Many thanks to Arijit Majumder for the
tip.
Now, let me outline the changes that I have made in the past week.
First of all, Slackware was a bad choice. I do not mean to say that
Slackware is not good (I personally value its simplicity greatly), but
for a localized LiveCD (in Bengali), it is not a very good choice. The
main issue lies in the fact that all the main config tools in Slack is
terminal based, which sadly has no support for Bangla. A GUI frontend
for system config was needed in Slackware (and that had to be based on
GTK2), and I could not find any. So, I switched to Mandrake. The
drakconnect tool was my initial choice, but it crashed on startup in a
Live CD environment and so, much against my wishes, I had to move to
the GNOME System Tools.  The tools are marked as unstable, though
they work fine in my own system. I need to do more testing on other
machines though. I cannot afford to have unstable apps in the LiveCD.
The transition from Slackware to Mandrake has been smoother than I had
originally anticipated, though some programmes like Xine will require
recompilation. I have added Yudit and wvdial to the LiveCD, and expect
to have a feature freeze with beta3. Here is the planned release
schedule ( no dates yet)

• beta3 - Feature Freeze
• RC1 - UI Freeze (no changes to
  desktop/docs except for bug fixing)
  
• Final release (which should be around the second week on November)

I also have some plans wrt handling disk mounting, and I had sent a
mail to Jamil on this.  The mail is copy pasted below:

Here is my
idea on handling disks.

1. Removable media (CDROM and Floppy): I’ll be
using supermount (that
means the device will always be mounted - the
driver will automatically
detect when the medium is changing)

2. Hard Disks - FAT32 and NTFS partitions will
be mounted automatically,
and icons will be displayed on the right side
of the screen.
Ext2/Ext3/Reiserfs/XFS/JFS partitions will not
be mounted automatically
- people using those filesystems should be
sufficiently familiar with
mount

Now, this is quite ambitious (I still do not trust supermount very
much, and so beta3 will be requiring extensive testing. )
I am using the gnome-panel from Ximian so that there can be a menu
stripe, and a fancy alarm system has been integrated with the clock.
I now need to find out why the thing is so slow in booting up in my own
machine.
..and if someone needs a CD Cover for the LiveCD, see below (a larger
version available on request).