I'd like to propose updating the terminology of downloadable media to a more accurate and modern vernacular. The terms "CD" and "DVD", while implicitly suggesting an image, are no longer representative of contemporary system hardware. Most desktop or laptop systems no longer ship with built-in optical disk drive hardware, therefore it is standard for our community to write the images to USB flash drives, HDD/SSDs via SATA to USB bus converter, and the like. For future proofing I propose moving away from including the hardware interfaces backing the I/O as part of the filename and moving toward calling the media just "image" or "live image" since that is more accurate. Currently www.g.o offers the following downloads (left) [1] and my proposed renaming (right): Minimal Installation CD -> Minimal live image Admin CD -> Admin live image LiveGUI USB Image -> GUI live image I believe these changes will effect code in releng.git, www.g.o, and documentation scatter throughout the wiki, but especially the Handbook [2] [1] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media#Gentoo_Linux_installation_media Reproducible: Always
Per iamben in #gentoo-releng, we'd like to include the term "live" in the name to designate these images are non-persistent and read only environments. And they are not to be confused with stage 3 "images" (which are really just compressed tar files of a mostly-complete system).
Created the following wiki pages in anticipation of the desired terminology updates: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Live_image https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Live_environment Trying to lay down a solid basis and associated reference documentation for making the change.
