On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:57 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
IMHO, the HCL concept took a beating, in most all forms. The best
idea
is that some automagic might be nice. There are lots of lists of
hardware by model in the distro that could be yanked into XML and thus
into something pretty. But ye gods! don't let us do anything manual.
This was also the conclusion reached in the Fedora BOF at the Red Hat
Summit last week. I have "write up the stuff we said" as a todo item,
but the fact that I'm moving tomorrow has meant that I haven't gotten to
it yet :-)
I think this is probably a useful thing to put on the FC5Future page as
it's actually not _that_ complicated of a project. The hardest part is
the web side; the app to get the information is pretty simple between
kudzu and/or hal.
> * Marketing via a LiveCD - developer's don't find
this terribly
> useful, but its a great marketing tool. Now, we need to leverage
> pushing this towards being done.
Oh, this is essential. Anyone who says it's not useful in many ways is
not on this planet and should be ignored for this subject. ;-P
Also talked about this some. Live CDs are so a few years ago ;-)
Perhaps a more interesting path to go down (at least for official
re-distribution) is a Live DVD. That also includes the installer +
packages so you can kick off an install from it as well. That sounds
more compelling to me in a lot of ways.
fedora-livecd-list exists, jump on and propose some infrastructure for
the creation. At this point, I think the main thing is someone
volunteering to help get the effort going, provide a proof of concept
and then work to refine it.
Jeremy