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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 03/01/12 01:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:35 PM, wireless<wireless@××××××××.rr.**com<wireless@×××××××××××.com>> |
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>>> A while back there was talk of Gentoo and Ubuntu exploring |
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>>> some deeper form of cooperation; a merger of sorts. Surely |
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>>> an interesting idea. |
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>> I wasn't aware of that. Do you have some info on this? |
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> The apr 1 info, may be the key parameter. I remember reading snippets |
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> in several locations.... but nothing to recall now. I did not |
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> really focus on the issue at the time, so it is completely |
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> possible it was but a lark, I did not discern..... |
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> Still, an interesting idea, some would think. I have taken |
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> the path of setting up raid under Ubuntu, as suggested to me |
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> by a few old gentoers. While visiting the Ubuntu offerings, |
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> it surprises me to see so many (gentoo) familiar folks bouncing |
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> around and using Ubuntu, for a wide variety of purposes. |
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> Quite a lively and social bunch over there at Ubuntu, many |
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> old friends..... |
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> Curiously, Ubuntu seems to be able to |
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>>> publish documents, very easily. |
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>> Publication isn't an issue. We also have http://wiki.gentoo.org where |
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>> you can quickly set up and publish documents. |
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> Yes you are correct. Also, I did find the Ubuntu installation media |
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> (alternate.iso) for explicitly setting up RAID, as part of the |
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> native Ubuntu installation docs and media. |
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> Furthermore, Ubuntu on arm boards; documents intended for the rank and |
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> file users; very cool indeed. |
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> I'm still looking for equivalents in Gentoo; maybe after grub-2 |
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> is stable on gentoo, we can get a singular document and matching |
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> installation media for installing RAID from scratch..... |
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> Also note,native ARM support for netbooks, laptop and lite-workstations |
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> is coming to many linux distros. I just hope Gentoo leads |
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> rather than follows in that regard. Surely the talent |
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> is in the dev_pool to make it work, it's the documentation |
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> that is the real challenge, imho. |
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> sincerely, |
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> James |
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