[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: livecd persistence

Vladimir Shebordaev vladimir.shebordaev at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 23:13:16 UTC 2007


Douglas,

but wouldn't you better ask Max himself about it just to make 
everything clear? :)

Regards,
Vladimir

Douglas McClendon пишет:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Ah, then I did not misunderstand what you were trying to say. There is
>>> no need to get prior approval to work on cool stuff in Fedora. And a lot
>>> of the cool stuff in Fedora 8 will just show up without being on any
>>> approved feature lists. 
>>  
>> Still, I think it would be nice if LiveCD Persistence was on official 
>> feature, benefiting from that status and the related process.
> 
> Another reason why having LiveCD Persistence as an official feature is 
> quite important, is if it is already getting talked about as an official 
> feature.  It's possible that in this quote, Max is just talking about 
> traditional installation to external usb drive, but it's also 
> possible(?) he is talking about livecd persistence (certainly adding 
> dm-crypt to the base and or overlay images is not hard).
> 
> http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/face-to-face-with-max-spevack 
> 
> 
> "
> Q: What is the vision for Fedora tomorrow?
> 
> Max: The two biggest goals for Fedora 7 were the live CD/live DVD stuff 
> which was something Fedora needed in order to be able to compete at the 
> same level as other distributions. So we've got that.
> 
> In Fedora 8 and 9, over the next year let's say, we want to make the 
> technology even better. For example, envision you take your whole 
> computer around on your USB key and you stick it into any laptop and 
> your desktop just appears. If you lose it, your data is encrypted, so 
> it's not as much of a catastrophe as it could be – at least your bank 
> account is not all over the world.
> "
> 
> -dmc
> 
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