On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:29 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > > If OLPC is a "derived" from Redhat or Fedora Core distribution, I really > > > do not see how this pertains to this list. > > > > I think Rahul answered this already. I'll also note that this is not a > > kadishchi specific list (or at least that's my impression) and several > > people have asked me to specifically post my work here. > > Yes. In fact, I hounded David relentlessly for a couple of weeks to > publicize his work here, because I think it's excellent. > > It's natural to be skeptical of new code, but bear these facts in mind: > > 1. PRIORITY. > > Kadischi is heavily reliant upon Anaconda. Anaconda's functionally is a > large superset of Kadischi's. Anaconda also has significant *business* > pressures on its roadmap. Kadischi patches are, therefore, low priority > for Anaconda developers. > > Pilgrim, on the other hand, performs *extremely* similar tasks for OLPC. > OLPC must be imaged very simply, and very uniformly. A Live CD/Live DVD > is the same. > > 2. INSTALL FUNCTIONALITY. > > If there's one place where Ubuntu has an *actual* lead on us, it's in > their ability to install a Live CD directly to a system. From what I've > seen, we're closer to closing that gap with Pilgrim than we are with > Kadischi. Interesting question; does Ubuntu's LiveCD allow a user to upgrade a currently hard-disk-installed Ubuntu to the Ubuntu version that's booted from the LiveCD, like you would do a clean install? Or do they punt that functionality? Dan > 3. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. > > I'd like to see the prominent developers on this list -- Chitlesh, Jasper, > jdog, and others I've surely left out -- have commit access. With > Anaconda, that simply can't happen. With Pilgrim, it might. > > === > > These three facts, in my mind, are reason enough to ask the Fedora Live CD > community to consider the benefits of Pilgrim. If we want to develop the > two technologies side-by-side, that's fine too. But this is the > fedora-livecd-list -- *not* the kadischi list. > > --g > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org > Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors > ------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
