On Thu, January 26, 2006 5:56 pm, Csaba Henk wrote: > Heh... LiveCD. Certainly a livecd with a desktop is flashy and cool, but > I don't think it would add much to the OS's reputation or usability... > Pushing it to the point where Knoppix has already been four or five > years before will make ten or hundred times as many people as many are > now to boot *once* into DragonFly and klick over the start menu, but I > doubt if it would increase the user base...
Entire projects (Newbie, FreeSBIE, PCBSD, Knoppix) are built around making an existing, already-available operating system do this. It does seem to make a difference. It's one of many things that would be good for the project. Ideally, the amount of time between CD install and getting to a useable environment should be as little as possible. > Let me add my two cents. I personally got finally convinced about the > project's longevity and ability to cope with real life when Matt > announced his plan about embracing ZFS. Now *that* would be a feature... I agree - I am looking forward to it.
