-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Assuming you know what you are doing. If you've ever tried to help a > number of less confident users through it, you'd know what I mean. > > While I don't disagree that a Gentoo live CD is absolutely necessary, you > seem to be taking the argument further, saying that Gentoo should not > have its own live CD. Why?
Indeed, while as I've posted earlier in the list that users should free their mind, and not be too dependent on the Gentoo's LiveCD, I do see the value in users trying to contribute to the project by making a LiveCD, it's fairly beneficial to Gentoo: * Devs can still focus on the tree, on portage itself and/or other aspects of gentoo * This user developed CD will indeed open up more possibilities and give others more choice, without affecting the Gentoo magic touch if handled correctly. There are a few drawbacks and concerns, although it's much too early for some of them to become real concerns * QA. It's quite typical that if this CD fails in some rare cases, users will blame Gentoo * Automated installer or not, if there's this installer, how to balance between customization and freedom, I'm sure we all remember the "auto partition" option of the red hat CDs, and the headache it caused :D * Release cycle? * How much should be included on the CD? if we were to cater networkingless installation, a CD will only be enough for a minimal system. The lists above are by no means complete, but hopefully this thread sparks some ideas and interesting discussions in the list, which I, for one, have missed :) - -- Joe - -- A computer scientist is someone who, when told "go to hell", considers the "go to" harmful rather than the destination. GnuPG Key: 0xB14661D9 GnuPG FP: DE08 57AE A1AD 620C 02AA CCDD 611B 63AC B146 61D9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHinObYRtjrLFGYdkRAomAAJwMrBTH5IQ08UoY309N1VIJ8IyH0gCg6UpD sQ1d0Gc1Eq0ROGqSDYMypHI= =nLmA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
