Thanks for the thoughts everyone. It would be nice to reply to everyone individually, but I don't have that kind of time tonight. I did read all the comments though and they have all affected my thoughts on this.
I agree with Dan's sentiment that purpose is key. That needs to be defined clearly and then kept at the fore. Once the purpose is known, then many of the other excellent comments and suggestions can fall into place within the scope of the purpose. So let's postpone some of the other items for now and discuss purpose. And actually, after some thought, I think the purpose is fairly simple and straightforward. Originally, the CD came about because of the general sentiment that installing a host distro to get started building LFS was annoying. Doing so usually meant you couldn't use the whole hard drive for LFS without doing some crazy acrobatics. A secondary purpose was to have a nice packaged way to download the book, the sources you needed and a host OS all in one shot. If you were forced to work offline, you had everything you needed. I think those reasons are still essentially the main ones. Merge them together and generalize it a bit, and what you get is: 'Provide a packaged system that equips a user with the tools they need to build LFS and obtain online support while building.' What do you think? Can it be improved? Does it miss any purpose that the LiveCD should try to fill? I have many other thoughts, but I'll hold them until we're done discussing the stated goal. Thanks, Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
