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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:56:51 +0200 |
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"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: |
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> > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after |
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> > > the |
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> > |
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> > liveCD |
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> > |
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> > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda |
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> > > way so I can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've |
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> > > heard so much about" and be done with it. |
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> > |
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> > The irony here is that gentoo has had the live cd for a long time |
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> > which makes installing so much easier, but just won't go that extra |
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> > step because...it's supposed to be hard? If it's "supposed" to be |
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> > hard, why have the live cd? seems contrary. |
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> well, hard filters out the 'I am stupid and I don't read |
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> documentation' crowd, which is a good thing. I would not call the |
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> installation via graphical installer 'hard', I would call it 'buggy |
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> beyond usefullness'. |
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> Apart from that, IMHO a livecd is completly braindead. When compiling |
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> you need as much free ram as you can get. Every mb counts. And a |
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> livecd takes away A LOT of ram. Even more stupid - a livecd with |
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> gnome (which is the DE with the biggest ram usage). |
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> So we have a livecd, which is stupid in itself, for installing and a |
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> buggy installer - only because to prevent some idiots from reading |
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> the documentation. |
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> Is that really smart? |
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If your goal is, |
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"We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be |
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automatically optimized and customized for just about any application |
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or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and |
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developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. " |
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I think it's very smart to produce both a livecd and a minimal. |
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Oh and by the way, I agree with all your points wholeheartedly. But I |
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think getting rid of the livecd (or not putting substantial efforts |
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into its betterment) would be a move in the wrong direction. |
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