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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 the |
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> liveCD |
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> > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I |
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> > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much |
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> > about" and be done with it. |
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> The irony here is that gentoo has had the live cd for a long time which |
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> makes installing so much easier, but just won't go that extra step |
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> because...it's supposed to be hard? If it's "supposed" to be hard, why |
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> have the live cd? seems contrary. |
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well, hard filters out the 'I am stupid and I don't read documentation' crowd, |
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which is a good thing. I would not call the installation via graphical |
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installer 'hard', I would call it 'buggy beyond usefullness'. |
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Apart from that, IMHO a livecd is completly braindead. When compiling you need |
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as much free ram as you can get. Every mb counts. And a livecd takes away A |
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LOT of ram. Even more stupid - a livecd with gnome (which is the DE with the |
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biggest ram usage). |
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So we have a livecd, which is stupid in itself, for installing and a buggy |
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installer - only because to prevent some idiots from reading the |
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documentation. |
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Is that really smart? |
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