On 9/29/09, Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Martin Dengler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:33:15PM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: >>> >>> >>> Martin Dengler wrote: >>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi... >>>>> >>>>> OK, let's be playful for a minute... how about "Sugar Pies" (Live >>>>> CDs) and Sugar Wafers (SD cards) for starters? You could have >>>>> "Strawberry Pie" and "Blueberry Wafers" etc! >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ok, though "Sugar Pie" makes me think of "cow pie"...but the problem >>>> is that we're not going to have different images for SD cards vs. USB >>>> sticks, so I guess - although the names are amusing :) - I still don't >>>> see a good umbrella term to explain what we're trying to limit this >>>> list to. Only the terrible "Sugar-centric distribution" seems to >>>> capture what people think this list should be for[1]. >>>> >>>> >>> Why not "Portable Sugar-Desktop" >> >> ...because some have called for an "install to hard drive" option, at >> which point what's installed to hard drive is hard to call "live" or >> "portable". > > Depends on how "install to hard drive" is done. > > Yes, if when copied to the hard drive it doesn't lose its ability to > boot/run with other graphics cards etc. > i.e. I can remove that hard drive and carry it to another machine and > plug it in and it still works. I suggested > 'transportable Sugar distributions' in a separate note. (Catching up > with this thread.)
Fedora does that very successfully with their LiveCD so there's no reason why we can't. Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
