[Live-demo] Do we want OSGeo-Live on a USB or DVD at FOSS4G?

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 15:57:01 PDT 2011


OSGeo-Live will be handed out to all delegates at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver, 
and what I'd like to know is whether we should distribute on a DVD or USB.

In Barcelona, we were unsure whether the USB version would work on most 
computers, so we gave USB's to presenters only, who we thought would 
likely be forgiving if it didn't work) and we gave DVDs to everyone else.

So my question to the community is:
If you were given an OSGeo-Live DVD at FOSS4G 2010, were you able to 
boot from it on your computer (and whatever other computers you may have 
at home)?

If you have experience building a bootable USB, I'd also like to hear 
from you.
Probably best to reply to myself and/or live-demo at lists.osgeo.org and 
avoid swamping the discuss list with traffic.

On 03/08/11 06:26, Peter Batty wrote:
> Do you have a preference between DVD and USB? My laptop doesn't do 
> DVDs so I guess I have an inclination for at least having some USBs in 
> the mix. Don't know how costs compare though, will research further.


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