Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Saturday 12 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote: > >> I can understand why you guys think we are so compelled to have a >> Gentoo LiveCD, because every other OS does, and to be honest, that is >> exactly the reason that stops you guys thinking out of the box, in >> what way is being able to install Gentoo from any LiveCD/distro a bad >> thing? In everyway it should be considered one of Gentoo's strengths? >> > > Joe, > > You have hit the nail on the head. The users around here pushing the > idea to have an install CD just do not get it, and are probably > *not*able* to think out the box. They can comprehend is "Gentoo = > Gentoo install CD", precisely because virtually every other OS does it > this way. And they have been indoctrinated to think this is the only > way it can work, or they have drunk the PR department Kool-Aid or > suffer from Red Hat Inc.'s major disease - Not Invented Here syndrome. > > I've had hundreds of people pass through my Linux sysadmin courses, and > guess which concept they have most trouble grasping? It's not how > initrd works, Xen, or LVM (the usual assumed suspects), it's how do you > manage to use an Ubuntu LiveCD to fix a broken Red Hat system? Or how > did I install Red Hat using Ubuntu as a bootstrap system (possible, but > waaaaaay more trouble than it's worth) > > Such people should probably be running Ubuntu or a binary distro as they > don't fit the profile of gentoo's target audience. Before anyone flames > me to oblivion for insulting them, it's not an insult. I just recognize > that you want to buy a high performance passenger car, and gentoo sells > an experimental plane in kit form. > > I have installed Gentoo in many ways, the old UniversalCD, the LiveCD, others Distros LiveCD's, from a working Gentooinstallation to a usb-connected drive which was transferred to boot in a old laptop and so on. But i still think a Gentoo-Install-CD/DVD is a good thing. So your statement "The users around here pushing the idea to have an install CD just do not get it, and are probably *not*able* to think out the box." is clearly not bulletproof.
Norman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
