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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:08:58
Message-Id: CAA2qdGWjm4oLM2n8KCSyV=mxOfKV5m3B-2a40d8OgHu0_WyD4A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo) by "mike@trausch.us"
1 On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, "mike@×××××××.us" <mike@×××××××.us> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
4 > > Found this blogpost serendipitously:
5 > >
6 > >
7 http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/
8 > >
9 > > so, are we brothers? :-)
10 > >
11 >
12 > But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM! You just
13 > need LVM built-in and GRUB 2!
14 >
15 > *ducks*
16 >
17
18 Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are
19 against initrd/initramfs :-P
20
21 That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got the
22 vibes that Gentoo's is the one where he didn't explicitly point out
23 something bad against; only a lamentation that he really don't want to
24 spend too much time compiling everything.
25
26 The blog writer's closing paragraph is very poetic it hurts; for I'm about
27 to leave my beloved Gentoo servers behind...
28
29 Rgds,

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo) "mike@×××××××.us" <mike@×××××××.us>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo) Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>