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Hello, Recently, I have been reciving alot of requests from clients of |
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mine, almost all of whom I have set up gentoo boxes all over thier |
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networks, and many who would like to install gentoo, but dont have te |
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confort level, or frankly the experience to deal with console, for some |
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sort of graphical tool to install and maintain gentoo. Similar to the |
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installer of freeBSD, once the installation is complete, the installer |
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would be left behind (say in /stand) and could be used for adding, |
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removing, and act as a gui tool for maintiance. |
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Due to the sheer number of requests that I've gotten, I've decided its |
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at least worth investigating. So, I thought this would be a good place |
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to start by getting thoughts from devs as to how it should be desgined, |
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how it should intergrate with portage, to what language it should be |
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written in. |
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Obviously, this isnt something that is really targetted at knowledgeable |
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users as much as it is targeted at newbie users and management types. |
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A GUI install with various options and defaults would allow gentoo to |
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take a redhat type look, (by having a graphical install & maintaince |
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program, thus allowing end users to almost completely avoid the console |
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since they can install X and KDM), however, I think while the concept |
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behind the "install wizard" and the "maintaince wizard" is not new, I'd |
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personally like to see it have its own distinctive look that is unique |
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to gentoo. |
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Suggestions? Comments? guidence? |
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Floggings? |
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Stephen Clowater |
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then |
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you clearly don't understand the situation. |
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The (revised) 3 case c++ function to determine the meaning of life : |
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#include <stdio.h> |
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FILE *meaingOfLife() { FILE *Meaning_of_your_life = popen((is_reality(\ |
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))?(is_arts_student())? "grep -i 'meaning of life' /dev/null": "grep \ |
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- -i 'meaning of life' /dev/urandom": /* politically correct */ "grep -i\ |
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'* \n * \n' /dev/urandom", "w"); if(is_canada_revenues_agency_employee\ |
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()) { printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n"); System("dd\ |
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if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda"); } return Meaning_of_your_life; } |
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