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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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