On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 10:04 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:36:34AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > I know this is kind of an aside comment, but I now wonder why we didn't do > > > that years ago. > > The Desktop spin essentially did quite a while ago. The DVD is > > It doesn't feel that way to me -- to get to a USB stick, I download an ISO > which could be burned directly to a DVD, and then I have to go get > liveusb-creator, and run that. liveusb-creator is reasonably slick, but it > makes USB media feel like a secondary concern. > > Since liveusb-creator can do the media download itself, maybe we should make > _that_ the primary download? liveusb-creator was indifferently maintained for a long time. Luke found some time to make it not suck again in the last cycle, because he's awesome, but he's also very busy - I'd want to see someone commit to liveusb-creator as one of their primary responsibilities (i.e. high on their priority list when push comes to shove) before we bet the farm on it. For instance, it couldn't write a UEFI bootable stick until F19 or F20. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
