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There was a discussion about this at DDRManiax, but their servers were going real slow, so my post didn't go through, I'll just paraphrase what I said there:
(I'm going to be talking about StepMania here, since it's infinitely better than pyDance)
Problem 1.) Everyone's graphics cards are different, and if you've ever tried to run SM with Software Rendering in Linux, it runs DIRT SLOW. With Hardware Rendering, it runs as good (if not better) than it does on Windows (at least for me). This would mean the bootable CDs would have to include drivers for the more popular graphics cards, and, when it comes to ATi, that could be tricky.
2.) SM caches the songs to make load times fast, anyone remember how long it took to load of your harddrive without the cache? Well, this time, it's reading off the CD, and it CAN'T make a cache without you having a native Linux partition (assuming you're going the *nix way).
3.) I don't particularly understand the point of having a Windows one, as I saw this purely as a way to be like "WHAOMG LINUX PLAYS GAMEZ". The vast majority have Windows installed, so getting it working on Windows is as easy as running the installer. Plus, you could still carry CDs around, just with your Songs/ directory and copy that wherever it is needed.
4.) This has pretty much been ignored by the simulation community, but the songs are copyrighted by Konami. I won't lie, I used to have every DDR song ever in StepMania, but SM is still "OK" since they don't package copyrighted songs with their program, however, if you did pre-package it with songs, I imagine it could be a problem legally for the SM devs.
If you really want to, you could just make a Lin-(or Win for that matter)box just automatically start SM at start-up and just have a single computer for StepMania. It's requirements aren't all that high, especially if you turn down the resolution and whatnot.
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