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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:06 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> I expect the average user to make a nice printout of the handbook. The |
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> print version of the handbook was provided mainly on user request you |
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> know. It also works a lot easier than either flipping screens to |
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> links/lynx all the time or running up and down to another computer (if |
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> available). |
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I think everyone has also missed that there *is* the ability to install |
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Gentoo completely offline. I've done it before on a laptop without any |
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Internet access, besides doing it for QA during releases. |
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We do not expect the user to have a web browser, broadband, or Internet |
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access of any kind to perform an installation. Using the installation |
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documents as an example of "requiring a web browser" is asinine. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |