On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:01 +0100, John Hearns wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 07:40, seth vidal wrote: > > > Great idea. > > > > > I'm sorry if I sound like a curmudgeon but this is just what happens > > when you hear developers promising the world year after year and the > > world simply never showing up. > > Point(s) taken. I won't argue - you are right. > > However, I'd just like to flag up the popularity of Knoppix. > Who really would have predicted two years ago that it would be common > for people to hand out live CDs at public meetings, or engineers take > along a Knoppix CD to rescue and diagnose sick systems (I do). > At the UKUUG meeting there was a presentation from Sunderland University > on preparing custom Knoppix CDs for their staff and students this year. > Other places will be doing similar. > I fully recognise this is a different scenario. You are indeed correct. And what would the world be if there wasn't some pie-in-the-sky dreaming. Knoppix is not that different a scenario but I would like to bring up a useful point. Knoppix has to do very similar things as stateless linux will need to do insofar as hardware detection and configuration. how many of us have popped in a knoppix to a new machine only to see it fail spectacularly to figure out what we just inserted it in? I think everyone has. HW detection has a long way to go, not to mention drivers. -sv
