[SoaS] [Marketing] Generating a list of SoaS spins

[Peter Robinson]

On 9/29/09, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Martin Dengler
> <martin at martindengler.com> 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