On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Whoaa! Calm down! That is such high order wishful thinking. I love this kind of irrational exuberance though. Getting older is so much fun. Then: Cool! I just invented the goddamn wheel! BadASS! Now: Make it go. And, make it go, without poking me in the eyeball. -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
