How to image a developer's machine

May 8, 2012

Posted By:  bitbonsai

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I was just thinking about how cool was going to be if I could buy a xps13z and use it for development, but then I'd have to format it, find drivers, etc...

Reading your idea I think that the best would be to have this image with not only drivers, but some predefined packages compiled for the machine, with apt-get -b source [package]. Some packages like vim, xorg, etc are default, but you could have a list of predefined packages like gimp, virtualbox, komodo, (other IDEs), window managers, etc. built specially for the xps13z hardware, on a nifty xps13z section inside Ubuntu's package manager.

The more tools available the better, because I would like to choose what I would use, but would be a great thing to have pkgs compiled for my machine instead to compile everything to get the most excellent performance.

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    Posted By: cote

    That's pretty much the idea! The "profiles" we're envisionong would be pre-selected and fixed up bundles of development tools and utils - the whole "develper toolchain." And, the goal of the official ones, at least, would be that they'd work on the hardware. Of course, since we want to run those profiles as an open community, we'd hope that others would contribute profiles too.