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How to create a custom Open BSD Live CD

This page describes the create-openbsd-livecd.sh shell script I wrote in June 2009. The script automatically fetches all necessary packages to create a minimal OpenBSD Live CD. During creation you get chrooted to a shell where you may further customize all installed packages and the configuration of the Live CD. Update August 2012: Got confirmation that the script still works with OpenBSD 5.1 32-bit.

How to convert tar.gz archive to RPM

Sometimes you want to deploy a configuration file on a Red Hat or CentOS system via RPM but you don't know how to create the spec file for the rpmbuild command. The tgz2rpm shell script in this article helps you in the process to write your own RPM spec files. The directory structure in the tar.gz file should resemble the locations where you want to place your files beneath the filesystem root.

How to create small silkscreen blog buttons with Python

Little blog buttons with size of 80x15 pixels and small silkscreen font are trendy. This article shows you how to create those buttons with help of a little Python script.