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On 24 March 2013 09:17, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> Am Samstag, 23. März 2013, 21:40:16 schrieb Markos Chandras: |
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>>>> Why not officially recommend SystemRescueCD instead? |
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>>>> |
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>>> Looks really bad to recommend another installation media (even if it |
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>>> is based on Gentoo) to people who want |
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>>> to install our distro. I'd rather Gentoo recommended the live DVDs we |
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>>> do from time to time than having these autobuilds around |
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>>> that seem to break far too often. |
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>> Except for the fact that downloading a DVD is slightly different from |
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>> downloading a CD... |
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>> |
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>> Seriously. SystemRescueCD is more or less exactly what we would need. Has |
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>> anyone ever approached the SystemRescueCD developers? |
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> I must confess, I have not used the official Gentoo ISOs in ages. I use the |
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> SystemRescueCD from a USB stick all the time. |
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Me too. Our minimal CD is too minimal for my tastes (no X, no GUI |
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browser for documentation), and our DVD too heavy. SystemRescueCD |
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seems to hit the sweet spot. |
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Maybe we could do a co-branded edition once in a while? |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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