Will install CD and Live CD be merged in the future?

[Chanchao]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> > (to replace the 'for human beings' thing some people find offensive..)
> 
> Some people find 'love' about as offensive as 'human beings'. But, y'know,
> we can't fix *all* the brokenness of the world.

Well, on the one hand, when you're new and successful then some people
will find things offensive no matter what you do. 

That said, the main issue with 'Linux for human beings' seems to be that
it implies that all other distributions are not for humans, for geeks &
nerds presumably.   That's not very nice towards other distro's,
especially when you're new AND suddenly the biggest and most dominant
desktop distribution.  In that position you don't need to put down
others, especially when you're ultimately all on the same team. 

So that's one very good reason to get rid of the 'linux for human
beings' slogan.  

Another good reason to change it is because it mentions 'linux' at all.
Like it or not, linux for many people still sounds like it's 'for
geeks', 'difficult', 'alternative', etc. 

I think Ubuntu is (getting) bigger than Linux, no need to dwell on it.
Apple never went around advertising how they based OSX on BSD; they
didn't need to, and few people wanted to know anyway. 

As an almost, but not quite totally unrelated issue, I still see far too
many 'difficult' words scroll past the screen when booting Ubuntu
(Dapper).  I think someone should write down all the words that scroll
past, then feed them to their mother and leave only the words she
understood and change or get rid of the rest. :)   

Also it seems that when any step takes a bit longer (slower computer,
etc.) then it flips to the text screen and then it gets really dirty,
when you see things like 'abnormal termination' or other warning
messages that look threatening but are actually pretty harmless as the
whole thing boots up regardless.

Cheers,
Chanchao