Philip Hands schrieb am Dienstag, den 17. Januar 2012: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:37:24 +0100, Daniel Baumann > <[email protected]> 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. JFTR we generate the whole grml with grml-live out of jenkins.
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