Installing from Live CD is the new black?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Chris Lumens wrote:
>>> Is it just me or doesn't everybody make their installs off the Live CD
>>> these days?
>>
>> I do kind of wish everyone used live CDs, but that's probably never
>> going to be the way it works.
> 
> That's just not gonna happen. Live CD are so small, they can't hold even 
> OpenOffice.org (or hold it but sacrifice a lot of other much needed 
> applications).

OpenOffice.org in a live cd is certainly possible. We do more locales 
instead but if you want a custom live cd to include all the packages YOU 
need, it takes about 20 minutes with a local mirror. Really easy.

Rahul