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I don't understand it either. Other distributions offer ISO files too, and that's very handy as it's still one of the source formats for virtualization platfor
by tempodox 5y ago
I don't understand it either. Other distributions offer ISO files too, and that's very handy as it's still one of the source formats for virtualization platforms. I created my Ubuntu and Windows VMs from ISO images. I don't care how old that format is. Why change something that works?
- peanut-walrus 5y agoAnd that is an absolutely insane state of affairs as well. I remember when my Packer playbooks stopped working because Linux kernel dropped floppy disk support and that was the method that was being used to inject the config on vmware. 99% of Linux installs are done on some hypervisor... ISO files are absolutely awful for this use case. Yet everyone keeps using them because the tooling is already jumping through thousands of hoops to make it work.
- magicalhippo 5y agoWhy are they absolutely awful for this case, and what would be a better way?
- bartread 5y agoI simply like the fact that I can take an ISO file and easily mount it as a drive in my OS. It might be a breakfast of a format, but all that complexity is nicely hidden away from me and it "just works".