Dan Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:29 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:
If OLPC is a "derived" from Redhat or Fedora Core distribution, I really do not see how this pertains to this list.
I think Rahul answered this already. I'll also note that this is not a kadishchi specific list (or at least that's my impression) and several people have asked me to specifically post my work here.
Yes. In fact, I hounded David relentlessly for a couple of weeks to publicize his work here, because I think it's excellent.
It's natural to be skeptical of new code, but bear these facts in mind:
- PRIORITY.
Kadischi is heavily reliant upon Anaconda. Anaconda's functionally is a large superset of Kadischi's. Anaconda also has significant *business* pressures on its roadmap. Kadischi patches are, therefore, low priority for Anaconda developers.
Pilgrim, on the other hand, performs *extremely* similar tasks for OLPC. OLPC must be imaged very simply, and very uniformly. A Live CD/Live DVD is the same.
- INSTALL FUNCTIONALITY.
If there's one place where Ubuntu has an *actual* lead on us, it's in their ability to install a Live CD directly to a system. From what I've seen, we're closer to closing that gap with Pilgrim than we are with Kadischi.
Interesting question; does Ubuntu's LiveCD allow a user to upgrade a currently hard-disk-installed Ubuntu to the Ubuntu version that's booted from the LiveCD, like you would do a clean install? Or do they punt that functionality?
Dan
They punt it currently.
Rahul