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Hi all, |
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I just read the IBM DW article about gentoo and I am impressed by the goals of this project. My first unix on x86 was FreeBSD |
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way back when and I remeber the days when I could only get BSDI/ FreeBSD drivers for the sync cards. Now its the opposite. I miss |
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walking up to any FreeBSD box and finding the right /etc/ files the first try. |
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I've been working with "Internet Appliances" and in contrast to thier simplified admin push I feel that the Linux/Redhat SysV |
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init is getting very complicated. I just downloaded e-smith (www.e-smith.com) which address this problem with some internesting |
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perl scripts that massage the /etc/ files based on user input from a webpage / console and a series of templates. I though this was |
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a good solution at first, but I guess a better solution would be to simplify the init first! |
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So basically can someone give me a brief overview as to what you guys mean by "Simplified SysV-style initialization scripts"? |
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Also where can I find out more about "Portage"? Can I rsync the source tree and make world? What is meant by merging the package |
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and why do I have to unmerge afterwards? Should I just install it and read the man pages? |
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Is Java running on rc3? |
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I have a PII/400 with an AMI RAID card setup as a testing machine. I was going to use it for e-smith, but I'd like to try this |
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first. Are there any RAID issues on install? |
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Thanks, |
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-Aaron Held |
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As Isaac Newton would say now: |
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If I see further than others, it is because I stand on |
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the shoulders of giants too dumb to patent their discoveries. |
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(Gregory Palast, http://www.observer.co.uk/ ) |