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On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:23 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I always use SystemRescueCD to install a new Gentoo system. Never a single |
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> problem with it, other than having to set up my own working conditions every |
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> time. |
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Personally I tend to use Ubuntu - mainly because it just gives you a |
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nice desktop experience and just works. I can easily fire up a full |
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browser, open all the xterms I want, and so on. I really don't care |
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about its pros/cons long-term because it is just a livecd - the |
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installed OS ends up the same no matter what distro you use to boot |
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off of. It all runs in a chroot so the only OS component that really |
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impacts the install is the kernel. |
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But there are lots of choices. I don't really have a problem with |
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Gentoo having its own minimal iso, but I do encourage people to use |
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something more functional, simply because there are already a ton of |
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good livecds out there, and Gentoo doesn't really need to invent its |
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own. Since you only use the livecd image for an hour in the lifetime |
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of the entire system, it has pretty minimal impact on the overall |
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experience, even if it is the first thing you see. So, why not take |
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advantage of the polish other distros have put into theirs? |
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Rich |
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