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[big5] KH c writes: |
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> Hello developers, |
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> I have an idea concerning Gentoo Live Distro. As a |
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> Live Distro, it is essential that it is trimmed, |
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> leaving the biggest space available for application. |
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> However, in order to trim it we certainly can NOT |
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> include drivers of ALL kind of hardwares imaginable, |
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> thereby it render some Gentoo user with no driver |
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> included in the distro. My suggestion is that possible |
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> to change its installation seqence so when it discover |
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> that the hardware drivers is NOT avilable, it will |
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> AUTOMATICALLY download it from a certain website and |
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> install it all by itself. So as long as the user can |
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> connect to the internet(So we should MAXMIZE the LAN |
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> driver support), his/her basic i/o device supported; |
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> s/he can use all his/her hardware under Gentoo. It |
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> will save all the trouble for new Gentoo user to |
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> search all over the internet. |
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> What do you think? |
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So, you want to replace compiled drivers with some software, and a huge |
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database of all the hardware in the world, along with wher to download it |
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from, etc. etc., and hope that nobody decides to move stuff on their |
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servers, becasue then everybody's live cd's are worthless. Not that I'm |
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saying your idea is without merit, but you certainly would have to find a |
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way to make it seamless. You can't Joe Dialup downloading 26 megs of tarball |
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just so he can get his mouse working. |
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--Brian Jackson (iggy) |
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> Regards, |
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> Euler Cheung |
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> Project Manager |
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> LinuxLiveCD.com |
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