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Rumen Yotov schreef: |
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> Hi, |
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> Beside this official Gentoo installer, there's another distro based on |
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> Gentoo, which uses "anaconda" as graphical installer, current version |
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> seems to be 1.1 - it's called VidaLinux google for the site. Never tried |
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> it, so no experience. |
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> But it was paid for a Pro/Full version (support), check their site. |
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> OT: some people think it's rather abusing Gentoo's |
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> development,infrastructure,package system (no flames please ;) |
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> HTH. Rumen |
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Not flaming.... but I will say that I installed Gentoo using VidaLinux |
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(there's a couple of thread on the forums about how to turn a Vida |
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install back into 'real' Gentoo, which I utilized). |
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It was not a good idea, and I do not recommend it. |
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I don't know if Vida is a "good" distro on its own account (as I didn't |
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use it on its own account), so this is not any kind of judgement about |
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the distro itself. |
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However, because it's kinda-half-binary based (there's a Club which you |
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can pay to join to get access to a repository of pre-compiled binaries, |
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and I think I read an announcement that it was finally up and running, |
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though presumably still small), because of the backend needed to support |
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Anaconda, and because, while Vida is Gentoo-based, yet not Gentoo, if |
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you use it to install, things will be ... different... than what they |
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"should" be (as per the Handbook, for example), and because the base |
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system is not explicitly documented (afaik) by either Gentoo or Vida |
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(why should it be, after all?), you are not going to know (or will have |
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a very hard time figuring out) what 'extras' Vida might have installed |
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that you don't need, or what aspects of the Gentoo backend you might |
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need that Vida didn't install (because Vida doesn't need them). |
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Basically, you wind up reinstalling the entire system again anyway, with |
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all that implies, and while it's all very nice to do that from within |
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an installed system than from the console (unless you had the good sense |
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to use the Alternate Install guide and install from a Knoppix LiveCD |
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boot, or another previously-installed distro), the result is that you |
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get Gentoo, but without that sense of confidence that everything is |
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correctly built, and to your specifications. I still don't know how |
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much, if any, Vida cruft I have hanging around, some two months after I |
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installed. |
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And it just wasn't worth it, if I have to lose my confidence that way, |
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to save (admittedly) a big chunk o' time. |
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I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone else, unless they actually |
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wanted to use Vida, in which case, good luck, Godspeed, and hope it |
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works out. I'm a Gentoo user :-) . |
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Holly |
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