On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 12:09 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> I think it's in *everyone's* interests for distributions to collaborate
> where it makes sense. A decent USB writing tool is just a box all
> distros should be checking, and which we're currently all not checking
> while simultaneously wastefully spending separate resources on. A USB
> writing tool is really not a big enough deal to be a 'selling point'
> for a distribution, it's something we should just get together and
> maintain collaboratively to be more efficient and avoid the situation
> where we all have a half-assed tool that isn't maintained half the time
> and so people wind up using unetbootin or Rufus, failing, and deciding
> Linux sucks.
Hell, if we did it right, maybe we could kill rufus and unetbootin, at
least for Linux purposes. Some third party could do a build of the tool
with generic branding, and combining all the distro image lists. It
seems that third-party USB writing tools are going to exist no matter
what we do; if that's the case I'd much rather have one which was just
a build of sensible, dd-style code we have a hand in maintaining,
rather than the pile of crappy fail that is unetbootin.
Whoaa! Calm down! That is such high order wishful thinking. I love
this kind of irrational exuberance though. Getting older is so much
fun.
Then: Cool! I just invented the goddamn wheel! BadASS!
Now: Make it go. And, make it go, without poking me in the eyeball.
--
Chris Murphy