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On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 19:01 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> At the OpenExpo here in Zurich I got many requests for a vmware image of |
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> Gentoo. What do you think of providing a "live image" in addition to the |
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> minimal- and live-cd's? |
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Bug #115902 |
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If you can answer the questions in that bug sufficiently, feel free to |
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revisit this. Also, please contact the team that would likely be doing |
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all of the work to get this sort of thing done prior to bringing up such |
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a proposal, especially when there's already a bug report open for |
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it. ;] |
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We now have a wonderful x86 Release Coordinator, which was one of the |
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blockers in doing a VMware image before. Of course, there's always the |
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"what is Gentoo" question to determine what we would put in a VM. |
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I don't get this obsession with a "live image" when someone can boot the |
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LiveCD/LiveDVD on real hardware *or* in VMware. They can even boot the |
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ISO directly and not even have to burn to disk, so people without a DVD |
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burner can still use the LiveDVD. So exactly what problem are we trying |
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to solve with creating an image that cannot be solved with our current |
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media? Where do you plan on storing such a large image? What other |
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media are you planning on us removing to support it? |
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(By the way, I am planning on adding support for creating VMware images |
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to catalyst, so this will eventually be something much easier for us in |
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Release Engineering...) |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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