On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 12:09 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I think it's in *everyone's* interests for distributions to collaborate > where it makes sense. A decent USB writing tool is just a box all > distros should be checking, and which we're currently all not checking > while simultaneously wastefully spending separate resources on. A USB > writing tool is really not a big enough deal to be a 'selling point' > for a distribution, it's something we should just get together and > maintain collaboratively to be more efficient and avoid the situation > where we all have a half-assed tool that isn't maintained half the time > and so people wind up using unetbootin or Rufus, failing, and deciding > Linux sucks. Hell, if we did it right, maybe we could kill rufus and unetbootin, at least for Linux purposes. Some third party could do a build of the tool with generic branding, and combining all the distro image lists. It seems that third-party USB writing tools are going to exist no matter what we do; if that's the case I'd much rather have one which was just a build of sensible, dd-style code we have a hand in maintaining, rather than the pile of crappy fail that is unetbootin. -- 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 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
