Patrice Guay wrote: > Creating to different LiveCD (official vs plus) does make sense. With > the official LiveCD, you experience the equivalent CentOS release and > see how your hardware is supported. This pretty much follows what I was thinking as well, with one difference. Lets not call it 'official' and 'plus'. The 'plus' name is good, since it would reflect on the state of the media well, however the word 'official' is a bit misleading. Anything we put on mirror.centos.org and announce publicly is 'official', wether its plus or otherwise. Anyone have other recommendations for what it might be called ? where it == livecd built from the distro only, using pkgs in the distro only [1] > The LiveCD 'plus' includes packages from 3rd party repositories. It > could include monitoring software, rescue utilities. It could also > demonstrate how CentOS could be improved to support additional hardware. Including packages from third party repo's is something that makes me a bit uncomfortable, since there is little or no feedback loop that most people would have. I'd like to look at things from the flip side if we can - how about we bring those packages into the centos repo's or XX repo and use that to base things from, that would also allow us to have and test an update path for individual packages. In most cases, its just being able to speak with the existing packagers in the various repos and asking to shadow their work, few if any would object. Many would gladly offer to help directly. > However, trying to find a consensus about which packages/features should > be included in this LiveCD is nearly impossible. I think we just need to be a bit more focused on what the real goal is, and not worry too much about the implementation bits. eg: we should not throw away the idea of a liveDVD, if so required. and/or publishing pxe images that would boot the live[CD]VD's either. Package consensus will come with the efforts and work cycles. - KB [1]: we still need the livecd tools from 'outside' the [base]. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq