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Comment by wwortiz | Hacker News Reader

I don't know how I would feel about this, but I guess I would be okay if they had both a LTS and a rolling release distro.

As someone else commented ISOs need to be updated more often, at the very least weekly. (It really sucks after downloading an ISO on a shoddy connection only to find out you have to download another 300mb in order to replace the software you just downloaded)

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Some distros have 'netboot' ISOs that only boot into the basic loader, and pull all packages from the network. This would take longer to install be negate the 'out of date packages on the iso' problem.

For reference, the i386 one for ubuntu is here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/install...

Why do you believe this would be better? The main issue I see in the other comments is old/lacking wireless drivers - and a netinstall obviously couldn't help there. For the other stuff, why not just install from CD and run update once?

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  > (It really sucks after downloading an ISO on a shoddy
  > connection only to find out you have to download
  > another 300mb in order to replace the software you
  > just downloaded

trustix linux, I'm sure there are others, used to do this. It was kind of annoying when installing servers because you were never quite sure of the exact versions of the selected packages, and I had a few regularly diverging servers that caused some minor problems.

While maybe not exactly what you're after, they already have daily builds over at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/.

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