Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> It seems like a worthy feature for a livecd if one
>> wishes to use it a lot.
>
> On the other hand, why not compose the live cd or dvd with all that
> rightaway?
The point of persistence is to have a nice fat distro on a cute 3" dvd,
combined with a nice cute 1G usb stick, and be able to use the
combination, as a physically portable linux system.
The persistent usb holds _your home directory_. Do you want to be
recomposing your livedvd _during every boot in which the contents of
your home directory change_ ?
For the portable Linux system use case, I'd take a larger USB stick or a
USB hard drive and run from there.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip