Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > True, but it wasn't my intention to put it into a package as it would be > obviously useless for the target audience. sorry, I did understand it the other way round. > I thought about distributing > it along other media (installation CDs/DVDs, Live-CDs). i do not have the

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > I guess I do not know enough about Live-CDs, but obviously others have > this problem as well. Is it true that it is as easy as a VM to setup a > Live-CD for daily productive work? for me, it's even simpler :) live-helper is taking care about almost all of the little magic r

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread George N. White III
On 4/16/07, Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I maintain an inofficial package of FSL (a non-(commercial|free) toolkit for fMRI analysis). For a special-interest package like this it has pretty high number of users, but from reading the upstream mailing list and other user feedback I know

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Hanke
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Hanke wrote: > > I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be > > used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In > > contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, [ I failed to use my mail client properly. Sorry. This message should make it to -devel AND -science now - hopefully ] On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Hanke wrote: > > Therefore I'd like to ask whether you think that it would be > > reasonable for D

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be > used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In > contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system that > one has to live with. just for the records: live-cds can be per

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > Therefore I'd like to ask whether you think that it would be > reasonable for Debian to provide a virtual machine image with the > most recent stable release that can be customized to perform a specific > task on a win32 machine? I completely fail to see why a VM image /insi