sugar spin and liveusb-creator

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Benjamin Reed wrote:
> 
>> Is there a jargon file somewhere that describes what a "spin" and an
>> "overlay" are and how they relate to a live CD, which I assume is
>> something different.  And what I should be doing to make sure I'm
>> testing the right/latest stuff?
> 
> Sugar spin is not particularly relevant to the original XO testing 
> effort but feel free to participate.
> 
> Spin is defined at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins. It means a 
> custom of particular Fedora packages targeted towards specific set of 
> users. It this case, those interested in Sugar desktop environment
> 
> Overlay is defined at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
> 
> It means a additional storage layer that is meant to store settings, 
> data and other software changes (ie) provide data persistence so that 
> you don't lose changes after reboot.
> 
> If there is anything else, you don't understand - let us know.


Is the goal of the overlay to support stateless updates? For example, to 
  a swap out the underlieing OS for a new version but keep the data?

-- bk