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Some time ago I sent a mail with the above subject and there was no response... Now I saw it went to |
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the gentoo-server ML :-( /me bad |
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So, resending some thoughts about catalyst here... |
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So far I have played with catalyst, lately catalyst2, since gentoo-1.4 was released. AFAIR, 3 or 4 |
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times. More or less it ended up nowhere because of lack of _real_ examples and documentation (seems |
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to be getting better these days) combined with the long times to make a custom install CD starting |
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form stage1. Machines are getting faster and more (as numbers of boxen), distcc and ccache are |
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improving, so the latter problem has also been getting easier. |
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So what about the first problem? Working, real configs for gentoo releases? |
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I am thinking something of the kind, will it be possible/good/easy to start preparing a few configs |
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for the next release (2006.0 right?), complete configs starting from say |
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stage1-x86-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2 (as usually x86 is getting the most beating). |
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BTW, will next release use catalyst or catalyst2? |
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And as a good practice, leave all configs (for some time) in the source of catalyst sot that anybody |
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, more in practice than in theory, can produce an install CD. |
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The political aspect is that some "script kiddies" can start producing/selling/advertising "my 0wn |
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lin'x bootable CD", but hope we can catch them and educate them early that they'd better mention |
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"Gentoo" :-) |
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Customized bootable CD can be used NOT only for: |
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Installing on "strange" hardware |
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Upgrading some part of a release (kernel, gcc, security patches, etc.) quicker for new installs |
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Changing some packages for others as default (vim for nano, iproute2 for ifconfig, mtr for |
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traceroute, etc.) |
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Giving to a (close or girl-) friend to install in a snap on her exotic laptop |
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Making a quick restore CD (this thread was about that) |
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Making a bootable gcc/distcc node (to use those few remaining windoze machines in your office at |
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night, 'cause most don't support PXE netboot) |
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Feel more Gentoo: "optimized and customized for just about any application or need" |
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Make a small print firewall, still based on Gentoo |
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one more reason |
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yet another one |
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[ add your 10 reasons here ] |
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So, what do you think about that? |
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Kalin. |
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