Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?
A Live Debian-Hurd would be cool too.
These days has been a doubt in debian-hurd list, and some proposed
solutions were to boot from other media to perform fsck + grub-install
to repair a boot. This action needs live media.
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El 26/06/17 a les 23:09, Rick Thomas ha escrit:
> I'm a user and a tester, not a dev, and I know nothing (and don't want
> to know anything)
> about the personal politics between Debian developers. So that's all
> I'll say on that subject.
>
> To Steve's original point:
>
> First, a big THANK YOU! to Steve for taking this job on. I, for one, an
> grateful.
>
> I use Debian a lot, but I'm only an occasional user of the Debian Live
> images.
> But when I need them, I need them. And when I need them, I want them to
> just work.
> If having them there and working when I need them means I have to add
> them to my
> list of things to test and report on, I'm willing to make that investment.
>
> Please add me to your "testers" list.
>
> Thank you,
> Rick
>
>
> PS: On a related topic: What I think would be really cool, would be
> Debian Live images
> for some of the ARM architectures. Something I could dd to a USB stick
> and boot
> right away when I get a new box in for testing. Even cooler would be
> the ability
> to use that self-same live image to install Debian after the testing
> phase was over.
>
>
>
> On 27 June 2017 at 00:08, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com
> <mailto:steve@einval.com>> wrote:
>
> [ Note the cross-posting... ]
>
>
> If our live images are going to be good enough to meet the standards
> that Debian users deserve and expect, we need *consistent*,
> *sustained* involvement from a lot more people. Please tell me if
> you're going to help. If we don't see a radical improvement
> soon, I'll
> simply disable building live images altogether to remove the false
> promises they're making.
>
> [1]
> https://get.debian.org/images/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/#issues
> <https://get.debian.org/images/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/#issues>
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.
> steve@einval.com <mailto:steve@einval.com>
> "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
> as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
> -- Daniel Pead
>
>
>
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