Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Revival of this list: Fedora Live DVD?
My two cents (and I expect change back):
I think we should think about why people like live CDs, and what they
use them for.
I think one of the big attractors is grabbing a CD and taking it into
an unknown location and yet still having the environment and tools
they like. I'm not sure how many people grab a live cd and then go
'hey this rocks, go ahead and install!' I'm sure it happens, but I
suspect it isn't that often; more likely, they try the live CD out,
like it, then plan some kind of more permanent install (remember, most
Windows people will then have to add a second hard drive or
repartition... not spur-of-the-moment activies).
Having to download the entire distro, PLUS a pile of expanded
binaries, would just waste bandwidth and annoy people.
What would be cooler is if you could create them on the fly from a
given package set; basically take a kickstart (well, the @Packages
section) and turn it into a cd or dvd. Maybe also allow custom
packages. Make some sensible default (OO+Gnome, maybe) available from
the official FC site, but, if someone downloads the original DVDs or
CDs, they should be able to just make their own.
Chip
Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com> writes:
So. Had a few discussions around this at the Red Hat Summit -- it
became
a hot topic in the Fedora BOF there. What came out of it? Well...
...for one thing, it became clear that we need to kickstart this list. :)
For another thing, some folks asked: why not Live DVD?
For another thing, some folks asked: why not put the installer on it, so
that people can install the precise image they're playing with?
And lots of other questions. But for me, here's the takeaway:
There's lots of Live CDs. Too many to count. If we're not doing
something interesting, then we're nothing more than one more Live CD with
Fedora branding.
What about a Live DVD? With potential goals of:
1. Allowing users to choose to run the image that suits them;
2. Allowing users to install from DVD if they like;
3. Allowing us to put multiple arches on one DVD, if possible?
Looking at the download numbers from the torrent, we're seeing about 50/50
numbers for CD/DVD downloads.
So what about it? I know a bunch of you folks have Live CD code that
runs. Any of it convertible to Live DVD code?
--g
(p.s. Yes, we've announced the intention to announce the Fedora Foundation
at some point. I hope this means that we'll be able to turn this into an
officially sanctioned project at some point. But in the meantime, talking
works.)
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