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090114 Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 15:23 Wed 14 Jan 2009, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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>> Also, will we have an announcement on the www.gentoo.org frontpage? |
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>> This seems to me an important enough issue to inform our users about. |
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> Yeah, I'll get something up. I've got a few pending now. |
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I've been using Gentoo since 2003 & have installed it in 2 machines. |
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I've also felt it necessary more than once to comment in LWN |
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in response to scare stories then circulating about "the death of Gentoo" |
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& how it was no longer putting out new versions reliably or on time. |
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The fact that 'version' doesn't mean the same for Gentoo as other distros |
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is not clear to the many people who haven't used Gentoo. |
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I just had a look at the Gentoo home page, |
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as if I were a newcomer wanting to find out how to get started. |
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The 'about' page says nothing about the basic installation process, |
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so I went to 'installation docs', where the 1st 'installation resource' |
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is the 'Gentoo Handbook', which led me to get 'Gentoo AMD64 Handbook', |
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then 'about the Gentoo Linux installation'. |
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This emphasises that I can install Gentoo in many ways, |
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the 1st of which listed is 'from one of our installation CDs'. |
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May I suggest that the 'about' page needs an additional 3rd section |
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entitled 'How do I go about installing Gentoo ?'. |
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I'm sure DB is capable of writing whatever is needed, |
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but it could be something like the following: |
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Unlike most distributions, which rely on binary packages |
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and create a new version of the whole system at regular intervals, |
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Gentoo is installed once and thereafter kept upto-date by the user |
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by means of Portage (as above). Installing Gentoo is not difficult, |
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but it does require a bit more time & attention from the user, |
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which we at Gentoo consider to be a useful exercise for her or him |
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to get to know better how a Linux system really works under the hood. |
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All you typically need is a live CD and a copy of the Gentoo Handbook, |
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which you can find by following the link to 'installation docs' above. |
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It might be an idea also to amend the line in the Handbook above, |
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so that 'one of our installation CDs' is not quite so prominent. |
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HTH |
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