On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:12, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > I've just read this news (http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02638) - in
> > > my opinion very good idea. What do you think?
> > >
> >
> > I was looking at that :)
> >
> > Question is ... does it really serve a purpose?
> >
> > The purpose of the distro is to install on servers and workstations. A
> > live CD doesn't do that. Knoppix is very good in this market, so I
> > think the usefulness is limited.
>
> Some live CDs do have an 'install to hard disk' feature - then you
> pull in anything else you need from remote repositories.
>
> > BUT ... one good thing it would do is allow you an easy way to see if
> > your hardware works without downloading the whole shebang ... which is a
> > positive.
>
> Yes, this is the real value. It give you a 'seeing is believing' view
> of whether it works in your machine and which software versions are
> supplied with which bugs fixed *before* you have to overwrite your
> working system.
>
> > We may look at doing this after CentOS-4.1 is done and I have some of
> > the automated scripts working the way I want.
>
> If you can make the iso-building script public, it might also be
> useful for others to build application demos.
This seems like the perfect project for someone OTHER than the CentOS
team to tackle.
By all means, have at it.
Preston
