On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:57 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > IMHO, the HCL concept took a beating, in most all forms. The best idea > is that some automagic might be nice. There are lots of lists of > hardware by model in the distro that could be yanked into XML and thus > into something pretty. But ye gods! don't let us do anything manual. This was also the conclusion reached in the Fedora BOF at the Red Hat Summit last week. I have "write up the stuff we said" as a todo item, but the fact that I'm moving tomorrow has meant that I haven't gotten to it yet :-) I think this is probably a useful thing to put on the FC5Future page as it's actually not _that_ complicated of a project. The hardest part is the web side; the app to get the information is pretty simple between kudzu and/or hal. > > * Marketing via a LiveCD - developer's don't find this terribly > > useful, but its a great marketing tool. Now, we need to leverage > > pushing this towards being done. > > Oh, this is essential. Anyone who says it's not useful in many ways is > not on this planet and should be ignored for this subject. ;-P Also talked about this some. Live CDs are so a few years ago ;-) Perhaps a more interesting path to go down (at least for official re-distribution) is a Live DVD. That also includes the installer + packages so you can kick off an install from it as well. That sounds more compelling to me in a lot of ways. fedora-livecd-list exists, jump on and propose some infrastructure for the creation. At this point, I think the main thing is someone volunteering to help get the effort going, provide a proof of concept and then work to refine it. Jeremy
