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On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:38 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> One of the things I enjoy about Gentoo is how small the install disk is, |
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> that I can quickly nab 50 megs and burn it in about 5 minutes, compared |
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> to say FC3 and it's 5 CD's. Install disks for Installing, Recovery |
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> disks for Recovery :) There are a lot of CD's that are great for |
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This is pretty much our driving force. The Release Engineering group is |
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only interested in building release materials. It isn't our job to care |
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about backup/recovery, really. You are more than free to create your |
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own recovery CD for any architecture you want, and we'll even help you |
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with any problems you have. That being said, we are not going to add |
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more packages to the installation media. We are looking to reduce the |
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size of the media, rather than increase it. |
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> recovery ( albiet I will admit not many for alt arches ). No one is |
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> stopping you from rolling your own debian variation that runs on |
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Why bother with Debian? You could use catalyst and do it all from |
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Gentoo. |
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> multiplatform. I'm all for more tools that make the install easier, but |
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> space is at a premium, especially with gentoo-installer and X on the |
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> liveCD ( when is that coming out *grin* ). |
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Never. *grin* |
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I guess this is where I give my standard answer. The experimental |
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LiveCD, which has no real ties to the actual 2005.0 release, will be |
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done when it is done, and will be released shortly after that. ;] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |