On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 09:24 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:01:47AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: >> > My hope that for F24 our download is not an iso image, but rather >> > USB-creator. We could try to build some kind of GPU detection into >> > USB creator to have it choose a 64 bit image if the CPU supports it, >> > and maybe that would help reduce our 32 bit numbers. >> >> Is there a change proposal filed for this? It's definitely the kind of >> thing which warrants it, for communication with the web and >> infrastructure teams, and for marketing. >> >> The USB creator, presumably, is a small download, which then itself >> does download of the ISO? I assume it's packaged as an installer for >> Windows and OS X -- what about for Linux? (Either for existing Fedora >> users or distro-hoppers?) > > I think he's talking about liveusb-creator, in which case yes, this is > more or less what it is. I would be leery about making luc the 'main' > download for Workstation given its current abilities and the resources > currently devoted to it, though. In my experience it's the least > reliable of the 'official' USB writing mechanisms, after dd-style > writes (most reliable) and livecd-iso-to-disk. I'm also not sure if we > have a packaging of luc for non-Fedora distros or OS X. Yeah but does luc do GPU detection, or download ISOs? I thought you had to point it to an ISO file. I was thinking of something like bfo except it does some kind of GPU detection. -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
