I think keeping the .ISO is hugely important to lowering the barrier to
entry.
Has there been any further discussion about the idea of a foundation or
similar to allow funding contributions which could pay for things like
dedicated build, web, forum, backup servers, testing hardware, foot
massages etc? Think there might be a surprising amount of willingness to
contribute financially.
If that's too daunting, there are things like this, which take some of
the scary legal stuff out of the equation while still clarifying
ambiguity, and allowing for raising funds,
https://commonsconservancy.org/how/
Think they also have some functionality for preserving essential
information should someone withdraw or disappear from the project abrubtly.
Morten
On 04/11/2025 10:14, andy pugh wrote:
At the moment I think I come down on the side of keeping our custom
.ISO, as many of our potential users are very much not Linux
enthusiasts, and we should make installation as simple as possible,.
(However, the latest .ISO I created doesn't actually install on one of
my tests PCs, and distributing an ISO that doesn't work is probably
worse than distributing no ISO at all.)
(If anyone want to try it, I think it is this one here:
https://www.linuxcnc.org/iso/linuxcnc_2.9.6-amd64.hybrid.iso It should
install Trixie but seems to not show the correct splash-screen in UEFI
mode (minor issue) but also, on my N100-DC, crashes to a pink flashing
screen in the last stages of the install, leaving a system that boots
to a grub prompt)
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