On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:37:46AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
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).
The interface could likely use some work as well. It contains jargon
a new user has no way to decipher. So it would be a good idea to
involve the Design team for that.
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