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Peter Weber wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I now that Chris Gianelloni loves his LiveCD an the GUI-Installer and I |
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> know that he don't like to accept changes he don't support personally. |
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> But I do that know, so please don't kill me: |
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> Gentoo should have again an Universal-CD again, because: |
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> * Support for network/networkless-installation on one release-media |
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The LiveCD does this. |
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> * More flexibility as with Minimal-CD and LiveCD |
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The only "flexibility" that the universal has over the LiveCD is in allowing you |
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a little more customization during a networkless install. However, you can |
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always customize after the fact after installing with the installer. |
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> * Compared with LiveCD the footprint is generally small (necessary |
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> hardware, size of image) |
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If you want small, use the minimal. Also, you seem to be forgetting the GRP CD, |
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which is required to make the universal CD actually useful. |
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> * Offers the classic full "Shell-Installation" who is loved by the |
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> gentoo-community (no voodoo-scripts, included stage3 and sources for the |
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> most important packages like vanilla-sources and bootloaders) |
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Why can't you open a terminal and install? I know I've done it many times from |
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the LiveCD. |
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> * Could also offer a Ncurses-Installer and requires only some MB of |
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> space on the disk (without X11, Gnome, OpenOffice) |
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> * One consistent-installation way for all platforms (only x86/x86_64 |
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> doesn't offer it currently) |
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> * Debian and Ubuntu (with its alternate-cd) offers currently more |
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> flexible solutions than Gentoo! Hey, who is here the meta-distribution? |
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Good for them. |
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> * There are currently unoffical Universal-CD avaiable, we don't need |
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> much work to prepare: http://download.libexec.de/ting/2007.0/ |
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You're always welcome to build your own media if you don't like what we put out. |
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Keep in mind that we are *volunteers*. We like the LiveCD, because it's easier |
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to build and test. That means less time taken and less stress for us. If you |
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don't like it, become a dev and volunteer for release engineering, and build the |
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universal CDs yourself. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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