On 2014-08-09 00:46 (GMT+0200) Reindl Harald composed:
So what's a live media boot good for if not things little other than live media boot can support
to test Fedora without install it on a computer already running a different OS
That is only *a* reason.
(what one does not do every day)? Shouldn't live media have some carrots to compensate for their sloth?
for the usecase of this topic there are special distributions http://gparted.org/livecd.php
One might rather have one good live that does most or all things one needs live for than a whole bunch of limited purpose media which one might need to guess what purpose caused their presence in a larger live media collection.
Then again, when I need a live media boot, I only trust the live media granddaddy to have everything I need
you can't have *everything* you *may* need in every imagineable situation and since the space on a live-CD is not endless you need to draw a line and include packages useful for *most* users to get a feeling if Fedora could be the right OS for the future
CD, probably, but most who can download or use a CD can do the same with a DVD, and a DVD can do most things well for which one uses live media. Testing of a distro is a whole panoply of special cases frequently changing.
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