On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 15:39 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 09:24 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:01:47AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > > My hope that for F24 our download is not an iso image, but rather
> > > USB-creator. We could try to build some kind of GPU detection into
> > > USB creator to have it choose a 64 bit image if the CPU supports it,
> > > and maybe that would help reduce our 32 bit numbers.
> >
> > Is there a change proposal filed for this? It's definitely the kind of
> > thing which warrants it, for communication with the web and
> > infrastructure teams, and for marketing.
> >
> > The USB creator, presumably, is a small download, which then itself
> > does download of the ISO? I assume it's packaged as an installer for
> > Windows and OS X -- what about for Linux? (Either for existing Fedora
> > users or distro-hoppers?)
>
> I think he's talking about liveusb-creator, in which case yes, this is
> more or less what it is. I would be leery about making luc the 'main'
> download for Workstation given its current abilities and the resources
> currently devoted to it, though. In my experience it's the least
> reliable of the 'official' USB writing mechanisms, after dd-style
> writes (most reliable) and livecd-iso-to-disk. I'm also not sure if we
> have a packaging of luc for non-Fedora distros or OS X.
Yeah but does luc do GPU detection,
No, but Christian wrote "we could try to build" that, he didn't say we
already had it.
or download ISOs? I thought you
had to point it to an ISO file.
luc does do downloads - you *can* point it at a file, but it also has
both a built-in list of images it can download and write, and a remote
URL it queries for an updated list when you hit a 'refresh' button (it
should really pull the list on startup if you're connected to the
internet, but it doesn't, I tried to fix this once and failed, maybe I
should take another shot).
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