On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 03:09 +0000, inode0 wrote: > Well, this is what was worrying me about this discussion. I think the > live media (or some sort of live media) really has tremendous value at > events big and small. If this leads to an effort to make better live > media I'm all for it. Getting rid of live media is going to be a tough > sell to those of us who see its value. Is the value in demoing *in the booth* or giving to people to take home? > > Maybe at events, but it is promoted as such on the website. I'm not sure > > what % of installs originate from event-distributed media but would it > > be the majority? I think online is probably the primary distribution > > channel? (Does that seem sensical?) > > I'm sure the number of installs generated by the website dwarfs the > number from media distributed at events. We probably only give out > around 6k pieces of media per release in North America so I hope other > installation sources contribute more to our user base. > Ah. So it may not be worth mentioning events much at all in the proposal. Sorry for stringing it in, especially in such a misinformed light, I'm very sorry - I don't know much about which media is produced in what numbers, but thought we had handed out a lot more live media than DVD at shows I've been boothing at in recent memory. > >> >From the perspective of someone who has handed out such media at > >> events, if the install to hard drive option on the live media is > >> causing issues my suggestion is to remove it. The live media has great > >> value without it - it seems to be almost an afterthought anyway. > > > > I'm glad to hear this. I don't know how widely this opinion is shared > > but I hope it is. > > I know other people who love installing from live media. But as I look > at the sources of value that live media brings to the table that is at > the bottom of the list. > > I'll add that the biggest shortcoming of the current live media in my > opinion is that it doesn't include enough software to really showcase > Fedora in as powerful a way as it could. I would like to see us move > to live media that includes much more, perhaps as big as 2GB which > could easily accommodate a full installer being incorporated into it. Yeh, I think a word processor would help. And gimp. And inkscape. But I am biased :) ~m _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
