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James Miller wrote:
>
> Steven is the main/only developer, and he frequents 
> this list (I'm sure he reads it every day).  

I've been sick since Monday, so I'm a bit behind.  Sorry
about that.

> I think there is a need to have a bootable CD image: 

I'm happy for there to be a bootable CD image available.
However, personally, I'm not sure how useful it would be.
I don't have a CD burner so I'm probably not the person
to judge.  But it seems to me that burning the CD with
BasicLinux would leave 99% of the CD unused (unless of
course the rest of the CD contained Slackware 7.1 --
providing immediate installation of the packages).

> I'd be willing to host it at my BL add-ons site, 

Thank you.  That would be good.

> but it may be something he'd want to have on the mainpage.  

When BL3 is released, there will be a completely new mainpage.  
There probably will still be a path to BL2 (but probably not 
to BL1).

> Likely you made your CD for BL2: BL3 is now in the works, 
> so your CD image may be "obsolete" 

BL2 was designed to provide easy upgrading via Slackware 7.1
packages.  In fact it was designed to transmute into Slack71
over time.  BL3 will not do that.  The initial zip will do
*much* more than BL2 and will clearly be an improvement,
but it will not be so readily upgraded.  

There might still be a place for BL2 as a stepping stone to 
Slackware.  In which case a CD image (used in conjunction
with Slackware 7.1) could still be useful.  However, Slack71
is getting rather outdated now, so even that function might
not be so relevant.

Cheers,
Steven