On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:37:24 +0100, Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > On 01/17/2012 04:41 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > the debian-live team [...] haven't been able to communicate it on the web their > > long-term plans. > > there are no long-term plans; debian-live just creates the combined live > and installer media of whatever debian does. Well, having recently tried to find an image that I might be able to recommend to someone new to Debian, and having quickly found the friendly looking live.debian.net front page, I was a bit surprised to be presented with this after a couple of clicks: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/ which is not exactly helpful to a newbie -- also, even I am left wondering why there is a split between i386 and amd64 if the images below are supposed to be hybrid. Anyway, then I chose iso-hybrid, which seems like what I might be after, at which point we see that the only images that're small enough to actually fit onto a CD are the "rescue" and the "standard" ones, which appear not to include X, and so are hardly likely to be enticing to a newbie, so I gave her a copy of knoppix instead, which of course means that I have to say that what she's getting is very much like Debian, rather than saying that it _is_ Debian. I can understand that an automated build is unlikely to be able to generate something that's just as good as knoppix, since the latter has been tuned over a long period to exactly that purpose, and perhaps the restriction of wanting it to fit on a CD is less important than it used to be, but I think it's a bit of a shame that we're not currently producing a debian-live CD that shows things off reasonably well for a beginner, and linking to it prominently without an arcane sub-directory tree to navigate, as suggested by the OP. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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