[Mageia-dev] 26/01/2011 meeting

Mon Feb 7 18:37:59 CET 2011

Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+>
+> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 16:35, Marcello Anni<marcello.anni at alice.it>  wrote:
+>>>> we will be able to create a LiveCD version of Mageia for this alpha
+>> release?
+>>>> this is really important as interested people that don't want problems may
+>>>> want to try it and then install it only when a stable release is ready for
+>>>> everyday use.
+>>>
+>>> As pointed out several times (and will be underlined in all
+>>> announcements) this Alpha 1 is
+>>>   - NOT a stable release
+>>>   - NOT for the average user, it's a developper release
+>>>   - NOT ready for everyday use
+>>
+>> in fact, a livecd version allow to keep the "funny" side of linux without
+>> having any risk. so?
+>
+> Again, that's not the focus of this alpha release. We don't want
+> people to try it around just to see what Mageia has in reserve,
+> because they will be disappointed in this regard: take this alpha as
+> an alpha-developer/packager-technical-raw-preview. It will be ugly. It
+> will scare Santa Claus. It will make the rain vaporize. It may even
+> break your neighbour's TV set.
+
+Right -- Mageia is powerful stuff :)
+
+Point well made.  Our alpha release will be far from ready for the 
+average user.  But an essential step in the process.
+
+>
+> Romain
+>
+
+-- 
+André
+