[Fedora-livecd-list] pilgrim livecd work

[Rahul]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:29 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>
>>>> If OLPC is a "derived" from Redhat or Fedora Core distribution, I really 
>>>> do not see how this pertains to this list.
>>> I think Rahul answered this already. I'll also note that this is not a
>>> kadishchi specific list (or at least that's my impression) and several
>>> people have asked me to specifically post my work here.
>> Yes.  In fact, I hounded David relentlessly for a couple of weeks to
>> publicize his work here, because I think it's excellent.
>>
>> It's natural to be skeptical of new code, but bear these facts in mind:
>>
>> 1. PRIORITY.  
>>
>> Kadischi is heavily reliant upon Anaconda.  Anaconda's functionally is a
>> large superset of Kadischi's.  Anaconda also has significant *business*
>> pressures on its roadmap.  Kadischi patches are, therefore, low priority
>> for Anaconda developers.
>>
>> Pilgrim, on the other hand, performs *extremely* similar tasks for OLPC.  
>> OLPC must be imaged very simply, and very uniformly.  A Live CD/Live DVD 
>> is the same.
>>
>> 2. INSTALL FUNCTIONALITY.
>>
>> If there's one place where Ubuntu has an *actual* lead on us, it's in 
>> their ability to install a Live CD directly to a system.  From what I've 
>> seen, we're closer to closing that gap with Pilgrim than we are with 
>> Kadischi.
> 
> Interesting question; does Ubuntu's LiveCD allow a user to upgrade a
> currently hard-disk-installed Ubuntu to the Ubuntu version that's booted
> from the LiveCD, like you would do a clean install?  Or do they punt
> that functionality?
> 
> Dan

They punt it currently.

Rahul