On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 10:04 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:36:34AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
I know this is kind of an aside comment, but I now wonder why we didn't do that years ago.
The Desktop spin essentially did quite a while ago. The DVD is
It doesn't feel that way to me -- to get to a USB stick, I download an ISO which could be burned directly to a DVD, and then I have to go get liveusb-creator, and run that. liveusb-creator is reasonably slick, but it makes USB media feel like a secondary concern.
Since liveusb-creator can do the media download itself, maybe we should make _that_ the primary download?
liveusb-creator was indifferently maintained for a long time. Luke found some time to make it not suck again in the last cycle, because he's awesome, but he's also very busy - I'd want to see someone commit to liveusb-creator as one of their primary responsibilities (i.e. high on their priority list when push comes to shove) before we bet the farm on it. For instance, it couldn't write a UEFI bootable stick until F19 or F20.