On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:30 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: >> >> If I'm a consumer and I see "Live Image" with no other context - I say >> as opposed to... "dead?" And of course, we know that isn't the case. >> It is, actually, as opposed to the "older technology that just runs an >> installer but not in the familiar desktop environment but may be >> better for servers but we don't know exactly why and no one looks at >> anymore and oh yeah it does upgrades" CD/DVD. Oh yeah - silly me. >> > > Selectable filesystems, selectable packages, updates at install time, > install over the network, upgrades, yeah that image. Rather that talk about this again in email, I created a wiki page here with some thoughts on how we could bring the benefits of both together: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UnifiedInstaller I'm sure there would be a lot of opportunity for optimization if we shipped .rpm files on the live image, but then again we have 4+ gigabytes. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
