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Albert Hopkins <marduk <at> letterboxes.org> writes: |
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> I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of |
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> competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another |
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> Ubuntu [TM]. |
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All you have said presupposes one (erroneous) assumption: that is an easy |
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to use graphical install cannot be used if the distro is source code |
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based. Nothing could be further from the truth. An easy to use |
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graphical installation, should only be for getting the HD prepared, kernel |
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installed and a minimum number of software packages installed. Then the |
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customizing could continue as is normal via the handbook. |
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A nice graphical installation process would help the distro grow and gain |
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presence in more places, which is always a good thing. The 'mindset' |
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that if gentoo had some easy to use graphical install, it would alter the |
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mega-distro (sourcecode) nature of Gentoo, is misguided at best. |
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I.E. they are not mutually exclusive, but complimentary. |
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Distros survive, regardless of being free or for sell, because they |
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attract a large user base. Gentoo needs an easy to use, graphical |
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installation CD, period. What I would do is lower(simplify) the goals of what |
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that installation CD accomplishes. Once you get a drive prepared, |
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kernel installed and the basic tools installed (binary |
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or compiled). At that point, it's fairly straightforward to turn the box |
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into a server, firewall, or workstation. |
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You, nor any respondent has given one shred of evidence as to why the |
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installation CD cannot be graphical, easy to use and still be the gentoo we all |
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know and love ( that is source code based). Its only a guess, but I think |
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the devs that work on the CD are trying to make the installation full featured |
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just like going through the handbook. Simplify and drop those troublesome |
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features/options found in the handbook, in order to simplify the creation |
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of an installation CD. After all 3 types of stages use to be offered, now |
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the stage 3 is the most preferred. In the end you still end up with the |
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same gentoo system regardless if you use stage 1 or stage 3, eventually. |
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Does it not sound a little weird that many folks recommend using another |
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installation CD to facilitate the installation of Gentoo? |
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James |
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