[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Robert Adkins]

> >
> > It's already going to be difficult enough as it is to explain the 
> > concept of the /swap partition as the reason why their 
> computer should 
> > have 187GB displayed for a 200GB hard drive, yet they only see it 
> > displaying between 180 and 185GB. (Assuming they run with just the 
> > /swap and the / partitions.)
> 
> They just need to be educated.
> 

  People don't always have the time or interest in being educated. The vast
majority of people aren't like us technically oriented types. They don't
want to know this kind of stuff.

> > Still, the Live CD is going to be exactly the same as the standard 
> > Ubuntu install CD, the only difference being in the fact 
> that it will 
> > be preconfigured for a particular configuration of hardware and 
> > printers as well as have all the latest (At the time it was made) 
> > software updates installed. There may also be some logo 
> insertion and a few other elements.
> 
> No it won't.  It will need a bunch of updates at least.  They 
> will also need to reinstall any packages they added separately.
>

  Ubuntu has a utility that you can use to create a burnable Live CD of the
currently running configuration. That means if you replace the desktop
image, run a slew of updates and install a pile of third party software, it
will generate a Live CD with those changes/configurations present. When the
install is run off that disc, it is supposed to apply those same
configurations to the new installation. (That's still being tested.)

-Rob