On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. This seems like the perfect project for someone OTHER than the CentOS team to tackle. By all means, have at it. Preston