On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:22:34PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Martin Dengler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:22:56PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > >> And yep. I think that keeping track of other Sugar liveUSB > >> implementations is going to help this, because that way we can keep > >> track of naming. ("Sugar liveUSB implementations" is a much better > >> term than "SoaS spins," which was the term I was using because I > >> couldn't think of any others.) > > > > Perhaps "Sugar live images" would be better? They're not just for USB > > devices. > > > > Actually, the only distinguishing factor I can see (besides being > > talked about far more than they're tested ;)) is that they were > > originally designed to run from read-only media but now cannot. > > I see two other possible common factors: > > 1. They are designed to auto discover/configure their hardware/network > access at every boot.
So is every modern major linux distro's default install. > 2. They are designed to run from what is usually thought of as > removable media (this is either a result of or the reason for #1) How so? /etc/init.d/livesys* is all I can think of, and that's not necessary these days. > Hmm. Are they "transportable Sugar installations"? This doesn't > mean they always will be moved from place to place, but a design > requirement is that they can be. Could be - though to me "portable" and "transportable" are saying the same thing. > Bill Bogstad Martin
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