Dear Drupal,

I thought about my experience with installing and showing Drupal to other people and thought: what could make it easier to introduce Drupal to interested people? Yes, there are demos online, but do they have all modules, themes, features installed? Do people use online demos (often with a lot of bogus and non-sense demo data)?

What about a Drupal Live CD? Distros do Live CDs, desktop environments (KDE, Enlightenment) do live CDs... Could this be something Drupal would benefit from? It could find its way to magazines with CDs... It could be more usable than an online demo.

Roman Dergam

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greggles
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Location Denver, Colorado, USA
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Status: Active » Fixed

There are lots of live cds that individuals and companies have produced over the years. None of these projects has really "taken off" with great popularity. There are two major problems with the live cds:

1) Do they work at all? Often they will, but you are still relying on the underlying hardware detection of whatever live cd OS you are using.

2) You have to keep re-rolling the distribution for security updates or to add new modules, which makes them much less valuable.

Contrast that with how easy it is to install Drupal these days and I just don't think it's worth it for all the effort?

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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