KEV/Update Iterations on Live Resources

Hello!

I really appreciate the Fedora Project!

I just want to provide a quick feedback/suggestion. At the moment there are major releases which come with the new .iso (eg release 43 as of the time I’m writing this). It would be very useful to improve overall user experience, security and function if support for update && upgrade for live disk usage could be significantly enhanced. It can be very difficult or infeasible to do so at the moment. This may be somewhat of an undertaking technologically though depending on completeness since at the moment some require a restart (and this is a live environment). Alternatively (or in compliment) to that also iterating releases in smaller increments, for example if there are patches for a KEV to avoid causing security risk to users, networks and so on. Sometimes it can be a while before a major release and in that time there can be a large number of relevant patches/improvements that may also improve compatibility or function issues that many users face.

Previously in general I know those types of issues have kept a lot of people away from adopting Linux. Imagine for example you are a new prospective user or you are trying to teach a new user so you try out the live disk image. However, when you try to demonstrate basic usability you immediately encounter significant problems because the browser is out of date (and cant be updated live), it starts behaving anomalously because known issues arent fixed in the live version (but are now as of a weekly update release) and so on. All of that just because the live release version is a couple of months old. Seems like a lot of undermined effort when you could, somewhat simply compared to major releases, just build a live image with the standard updates every so often (weekly/biweekly/whatever is feasible) that is made available while also having the main iteration release image to support some deployment needs.

This improvement would be immensely appreciated for many reasons!

Regardless please keep up the good work and thank you for all that you do!

You may be interested in the output of the respins sig:

They do respins with all updates applied.

Hello @quickfeedback and welcome to :fedora: !
Since you tagged the post with coreos-wg, I think it’s worth mentioning (in case you didn’t know) that Fedora CoreOS releases its LiveISO images along with all other artifacts and bootable containers every two weeks.