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

[Martin Dengler]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:22:34PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Martin Dengler
> <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:22:56PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
> >> And yep. I think that keeping track of other Sugar liveUSB
> >> implementations is going to help this, because that way we can keep
> >> track of naming. ("Sugar liveUSB implementations" is a much better
> >> term than "SoaS spins," which was the term I was using because I
> >> couldn't think of any others.)
> >
> > Perhaps "Sugar live images" would be better?  They're not just for USB
> > devices.
> >
> > Actually, the only distinguishing factor I can see (besides being
> > talked about far more than they're tested ;)) is that they were
> > originally designed to run from read-only media but now cannot.
> 
> I see two other possible common factors:
> 
> 1. They are designed to auto discover/configure their hardware/network
> access at every boot.

So is every modern major linux distro's default install.

> 2. They are designed to run from what is usually thought of as
> removable media (this is either a result of or the reason for #1)

How so?  /etc/init.d/livesys* is all I can think of, and that's not
necessary these days.

> Hmm.  Are they "transportable Sugar installations"?  This doesn't
> mean they always will be moved from place to place, but a design
> requirement is that they can be.

Could be - though to me "portable" and "transportable" are saying the
same thing.

> Bill Bogstad

Martin

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