Florian La Roche wrote:
I would find such a live-cd very useful for many things. From hardware testing, beta testing new apps, etc. (And I don't see why this would be again a discussion point to add things Red Hat cannot put up for redistribution.)
I cringe at the thought...of an official live cd meant for beta testing of specific applications. Dear god, fedora would have to re-roll a new livecd image EVERY DAY during the beta testing phase...so you could download a new livecd image EVERY DAY to incoporate the new package updates that come out EVERY DAY. Dear god! that would complicate the beta testing matrix a great deal. Are you seriously saying that you'd burn a new livecd image EVERY day, in order to beta test applications? What a horrible horrible idea. It might SEEM like it would make testing easier for the tester...but I can't see it doing anything but complicating the process of actually dealing with bug reports.
A livecd SOLELY for the purpose of testing...seems ill-fated a reason to have a livecd. considering the fact that a livecd image is bound to have its own bugs and errors that might not be in a normal install...seems a bit circular to say the purpose of the official livecd is to test the livecd.
-jef
I cringe at the thought...of an official live cd meant for beta testing of specific applications. Dear god, fedora would have to re-roll a new livecd image EVERY DAY during the beta testing phase...so you could download a new livecd image EVERY DAY to incoporate the new package updates that come out EVERY DAY. Dear god! that would complicate the
Kernel tests run out of a live-cd might be good to test machines that don't even have the beta installed.
greetings,
Florian La Roche