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Concerning the Live-CD, I would suggest to offer a stable version that reflects the CentOS release with all dis-advantages it may have (not installable, e.g.)
So it becomes effectively useless for everyone with a netbook/laptop and needs wireless ? I cannot use the LiveCD unless I somehow transfer the firmware (or remake the LiveCD), you loose users, hurt the project.
Upstream doesn't have a LiveCD, so I don't see a good point in maintaining the same hardware support in that respect. It only hurts the LiveCD effort. (Same for additional drivers for netbooks/laptops/desktops)
What's even more, upstream does have wireless firmware in their addon repository, so in effect we are not offering the same as they are offering to customers.
Then we would have to stop telling people to test their hardware by DL'ing the live cd since if the live cd had extra drivers, it wouldn't be a fair test.