Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert(a)gmail.com) said:
Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2013, 12:48 -0500 schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> Redirecting from spins@.
>
> Dennis Gilmore (dennis(a)ausil.us) said:
> > [the multi-desktop DVD] uses grub/syslinux to select which of the 5 desktop
lives you
> > want to run. its designed for use by ambassadors to give out at events.
> > it has both 32 and 64 bit images on it its designed for use with dual
> > layer media. Release Engineering produce it for final only to be used
> > to create media to be given away at events, it is not designed or
> > intended for general consumption.
>
> If it's not intended for general consumption, why on earth is it
> what we give away at events?
Because it hard to guess in advance what people want: GNOME, KDE, Xfce,
LXDE, i386, x86_64. You always run out of something and we ended up
shipping media back and forth. With the multi-images, live has become so
much easier for the Ambassadors - not to mention that we cut costs by
over 50% (or by 400% if you consider one DVD 8 CDs).
> Shouldn't what we give to people be something that is intended for
> general consumption?
Sure, but what defines "intended for general consumption"?
I don't know, I'm just going by how Dennis described it. I'm also
concerned that part of the problem is having essentially 8 deliverables
that people might want at the show that requires this level of hacking
together but I realize that not everyone shares that opinion.
Bill