replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Shubham Rao]

What about media creation from Windows?

On Fri 18 Sep, 2015 6:37 pm NikTh <nikth76 at yandex.com> wrote:

>
> On 18/09/2015 02:34 μμ, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> >
> > I disagree. The incredibly long list of Unetbootin bugs leads me to
> believe it's
> > in a worse state than Startup Disk Creator:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs?orderby=-id&start=0
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-id&start=0
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=unetbootin
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
>
>
> I agree with your disagreement. I consider Unetbootin almost a
> deprecated project. It's not in a good state as regards UEFI systems and
> has more bugs than fixes.
>
>
> > I have no objection to replacing Startup Disk Creator with something
> better, but
> > the replacement would need to at least adhere to the following criteria:
> >
> > 1- Support UEFI
> > 2- Be easy to use (including user testing)
> > 3- Use a modern secure design (backend service that does the minimum
> privileged
> > operations, frontend that supports multiple toolkits, communication over
> dbus
> > and policykit integration)
> > 4- Support udisks for proper hardware integration
> > 5- Be reliable
> > 6- Be written in a language that is maintainable
> > 7- Be of quality enough to pass a MIR (Main inclusion request)
> > 8- Have developers who are willing to commit to supporting it in the
> Ubuntu
> > archive, and for the duration of the LTS releases
> >
>
> I cannot remove or add anything to that list.
> Completely agree.
>
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