On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 02:09:00PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >I'm a user and a tester, not a dev, and I know nothing (and don't >want to know anything) about the personal politics between Debian >developers. So that's all I'll say on that subject. > >To Steve's original point: > >First, a big THANK YOU! to Steve for taking this job on. I, for one, >an grateful. > >I use Debian a lot, but I'm only an occasional user of the Debian >Live images. But when I need them, I need them. And when I need >them, I want them to just work. If having them there and working when >I need them means I have to add them to my list of things to test and >report on, I'm willing to make that investment. > >Please add me to your "testers" list.
Thanks! >PS: On a related topic: What I think would be really cool, would be >Debian Live images for some of the ARM architectures. Something I >could dd to a USB stick and boot right away when I get a new box in >for testing. Even cooler would be the ability to use that self-same >live image to install Debian after the testing phase was over. We have some armhf images for installation, but not for live yet. The hard bit there is reliably *booting* an image on many of the platforms. As more and more of them start supporting UEFI (if nothing else, via the minimal U-Boot UEFI boot hacks) that will help. arm64 live images are on my todo list already for the buster cycle. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt
