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Hi! |
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Duncan wrote: |
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> Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close |
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> > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in |
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> > gentoo-terms |
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> I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating |
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> its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there |
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> whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. It has always seemed |
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> to me that we'd be better off simply using one of them and saving the |
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> effort for something closer to our core competency/mission. |
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SysRescueCD does not exist for the fringe architectures. When we |
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first built the install media, the only alternative that was |
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somewhat reliable was Knoppix -- which in turn had its own |
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problems during the x86/amd64 days. So we built our own. |
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I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and |
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tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation |
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support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc, |
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mips and arm, there _might_ be alternatives, but I'm not aware of |
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them. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias |
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-- |
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"Brain, konban wa nani o shimashitai?" |
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"Your Japanese is terrible, Pinky." |
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