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

[Johan Van de Wauw]

I would prefer a USB drive:
1) my netbook does not have a dvd device
2) it is *much* faster. I could get something done on a usb device.
>From a dvd, that is much harder. Usuability and speed go hand in hand.
If I want to test an application and it takes too long to boot, I'm
already busy doing something different.
3) Unfortunately no experience building a usb version of the live dvd
(I use a virtual machine).

Johan

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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