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Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> On Saturday 12 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote: |
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>> I can understand why you guys think we are so compelled to have a |
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>> Gentoo LiveCD, because every other OS does, and to be honest, that is |
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>> exactly the reason that stops you guys thinking out of the box, in |
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>> what way is being able to install Gentoo from any LiveCD/distro a bad |
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>> thing? In everyway it should be considered one of Gentoo's strengths? |
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> Joe, |
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> You have hit the nail on the head. The users around here pushing the |
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> idea to have an install CD just do not get it, and are probably |
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> *not*able* to think out the box. They can comprehend is "Gentoo = |
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> Gentoo install CD", precisely because virtually every other OS does it |
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> this way. And they have been indoctrinated to think this is the only |
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> way it can work, or they have drunk the PR department Kool-Aid or |
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> suffer from Red Hat Inc.'s major disease - Not Invented Here syndrome. |
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> I've had hundreds of people pass through my Linux sysadmin courses, and |
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> guess which concept they have most trouble grasping? It's not how |
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> initrd works, Xen, or LVM (the usual assumed suspects), it's how do you |
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> manage to use an Ubuntu LiveCD to fix a broken Red Hat system? Or how |
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> did I install Red Hat using Ubuntu as a bootstrap system (possible, but |
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> waaaaaay more trouble than it's worth) |
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> Such people should probably be running Ubuntu or a binary distro as they |
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> don't fit the profile of gentoo's target audience. Before anyone flames |
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> me to oblivion for insulting them, it's not an insult. I just recognize |
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> that you want to buy a high performance passenger car, and gentoo sells |
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> an experimental plane in kit form. |
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I have installed Gentoo in many ways, the old UniversalCD, the LiveCD, |
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others Distros LiveCD's, from a working Gentooinstallation to a |
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usb-connected drive which was transferred to boot in a old laptop and so on. |
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But i still think a Gentoo-Install-CD/DVD is a good thing. |
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So your statement "The users around here pushing the idea to have an |
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install CD just do not get it, and are probably *not*able* to think out |
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the box." is clearly not bulletproof. |
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Norman |
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