On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:12, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I've just read this news (http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02638) - in > > my opinion very good idea. What do you think? > > > > I was looking at that :) > > Question is ... does it really serve a purpose? > > The purpose of the distro is to install on servers and workstations. A > live CD doesn't do that. Knoppix is very good in this market, so I > think the usefulness is limited. Some live CDs do have an 'install to hard disk' feature - then you pull in anything else you need from remote repositories. > BUT ... one good thing it would do is allow you an easy way to see if > your hardware works without downloading the whole shebang ... which is a > positive. Yes, this is the real value. It give you a 'seeing is believing' view of whether it works in your machine and which software versions are supplied with which bugs fixed *before* you have to overwrite your working system. > We may look at doing this after CentOS-4.1 is done and I have some of > the automated scripts working the way I want. If you can make the iso-building script public, it might also be useful for others to build application demos. -- Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com