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Hey Gentooers, |
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*Intro* |
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Gentoo Anaconda is a fork of Sabayon Anaconda which is a fork of |
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Fedora/Red Hat Anaconda. Anaconda is an installer for Linux disros, |
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originally for Fedora/RH but now it's distro-independent and many |
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other distros use it as their installer. Sabayon is a binary distro |
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based on Gentoo. |
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* Progress so far * |
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The installer is more or less done, it can install Gentoo that boots |
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and is actually usable ;-). |
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The biggest accomplishment this week was to finally make the mirror |
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selection tree view working, as well as making sure the installer only |
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uses the newest components, as it syncs the Portage tree in the new |
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install before emerging any packages, and it downloads a fresh stage3 |
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tarball from a Gentoo mirror. I have also managed to slim down the new |
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system a bit as it now does not emerge the useless Fedora |
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configuration tools. |
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* Coming up next * |
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Tomorrow, I will cook the new LiveDVD 11.2 with Anaconda (once it |
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finishes downloading), do the final pre-release testing and I'll post |
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it here and on gentoo-dev. |
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Later on, I will continue writing the documentation and slimming down |
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the code, as there's still a lot of useless cruft laying around (dead |
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codepaths and such). I will try to get rid of as much unneeded code as |
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possible, in order to use less space on the LiveDVD, making everybody |
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happier. |
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Cheerio! |
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~ wiktor. |
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