So, I began to make the open project "Ubuntu Astronomy" (it is based on Ubuntu 16.04).
It contains many astronomical programs from my list .

You can see its screen Ubuntu Astronomy v.1.3

What are your suggestions?

Wow nice work Oleg! Are programs categorized? Is this a VM?

It contains all categories of astronomical software for amateurs:
Kstars, Cartes du Ciel, Virtual Moon Atlas, ...
Siril, THELI GUI, AstroimageJ...
CCDciel, oacapture...
INDI server with all drivers
and so on.

It is a Live DVD disk (.iso) for installations.

Hello Oleg,

Is it possible to avoid unity desktop by default ?
It is not really handy.
(In my opinion unity is the worst desktop interface that Canonical has ever delivered with ubuntu)

No problem.
What desktop you can propose?

Mate seems to be a good candidate, it is lightweight and easy to use, more intuitive than unity I guess. But if you have any other idea....

Redshift integration with optimal settings for night mode could be great !

I suggest PHD2.

I can't create a good *.iso image from my project
I use the Pinguy Builder for this operation, but its image doesn't work correctly after installation: its boot loader has defect - installed "Ubuntu Astronomy" distributive can't load

You can download its daily snapshot ubuntu_astronomy_16.04_260716_64bit.iso .
Also, you can see the screen shots on FB page Ubuntu Astronomy .

Hi
Thanks for your job, it's quite impressive ! It reminds me some good time :
I am one of the first "Astronomy DVD maker" (lin4astro www.linux-live-cd.org/?Lin4astro 2005...pfff...11 years... based on a Knoppix live DVD).

And... one of our thinking is a DVD was too large, too big to be used. Now, with modern transfert rate, it's not an issue anymore.
The other thing : a linuxian has still its own distro installed. So having a new one... is not so easy.
For a new comer, it wants to try its hardware to know if it's working under linux without installation.

Finally we thought (project is in a deep deep sleep but some actual software are directly fro lin4astro, i think to siril free-astro.org/index.php/Siril which is based on a lin4astro maker work) :
1) Building a distro is a proof of concept, very useful for public demonstration without no installation on a live DVD. Does yours "live" ?
2) A good point is a PPA/repository/ Metapackage containing all softwares for each distribution. (so it's a pain ...there's too many)
Under mageia for example, there's a "task-astronomy" that install lots of thing

Clear skies,

JB

Yes, it has live regime.