replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Marc Deslauriers]

Hi!

On 2015-09-17 10:24 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi subscribers to the ubuntu-quality mailing list,
> 
> I posted the following comment about the Startup Disk Creator after a
> reminder today, that bug #1325801 is still alive.
> 
> ---
> The poor Startup Disk Creator has been suffering from many bugs for many
> years now, and in spite of great efforts, our developers have not
> managed to make it work properly. There are still several bugs and
> strange features.

Care to elaborate what the many bugs are? I use it every single day for testing
security updates on real hardware and since bug 1279987 got fixed it's been
working great for me.

> 
> At the Ubuntu Forums we started a discussion about replacing the Ubuntu
> Startup Disk Creator with another tool. See these links,
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2289225
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2291946
> 
> I suggest that we look for a tool that is
> 
> - reliable
> 
> - easy to use for a beginner
> 
> - easy to maintain, for example more likely to work without tweaks (or
> with few and simple tweaks) between Ubuntu versions.

Ideally it would also have both gtk and kde frontends, like usb-creator
currently has.

Marc.

> ---
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> Den 2015-09-15 kl. 16:22, skrev Nicholas Skaggs:
>> Nio, I agree now is the time to get the conversation started; don't wait
>> until UOS. You should certainly plan on having a discussion at UOS, but
>> I would start the discussion now. You'll want to talk to the -desktop
>> folks as you are really asking about replacing a default application. I
>> would think feature parity amongst other things would be important to
>> them. Plus documentation changes, etc. The sooner you get notice to
>> everyone, the better chance you will have with this. Good luck!
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>> On 09/14/2015 10:00 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Hi Nicholas,
>>>
>>> In the Ubuntu Forums we are discussing tools for making USB boot drives,
>>> that can replace the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator, SDC, in the next LTS.
>>> The number and severity of bugs in the SDC has made us start this
>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> I suggest that we have a session about making install media and making
>>> it easier, particularly for beginners, to install Ubuntu (and the Ubuntu
>>> family of operating systems).
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2289225
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2291946
>>>
>>> Right now Unetbootin has the highest score in a poll, but the poll is
>>> only one criterion for what to select. It is important to listen to
>>> people who know several tools and can tell the difference between them
>>> and to consider which tools are reliable as well as easy to use.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio alias sudodus at the Ubuntu Forums
>>>
>>> Den 2015-09-14 kl. 15:36, skrev Nicholas Skaggs:
>>>> The next UOS is coming, and it will be for an LTS. UOS is the Ubuntu
>>>> Online Summit we hold each cycle to talk about what's happening in
>>>> ubuntu. Now's a good time to think about what sessions would be helpful,
>>>> and to plan to attend.
>>>>
>>>> Those of your who might be wondering what UOS is can also check out the
>>>> last summit and FAQ page:
>>>>
>>>> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1505/
>>>> http://uds.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Nicholas
> 
>