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Hello, Recently, I have been reciving alot of requests from clients of mine, almost all of whom I have set up gentoo boxes all over thier networks, and many who would like to install gentoo, but dont have te confort level, or frankly the experience to deal with console, for some sort of graphical tool to install and maintain gentoo. Similar to the installer of freeBSD, once the installation is complete, the installer would be left behind (say in /stand) and could be used for adding, removing, and act as a gui tool for maintiance.
Due to the sheer number of requests that I've gotten, I've decided its at least worth investigating. So, I thought this would be a good place to start by getting thoughts from devs as to how it should be desgined, how it should intergrate with portage, to what language it should be written in.
Obviously, this isnt something that is really targetted at knowledgeable users as much as it is targeted at newbie users and management types.
A GUI install with various options and defaults would allow gentoo to take a redhat type look, (by having a graphical install & maintaince program, thus allowing end users to almost completely avoid the console since they can install X and KDM), however, I think while the concept behind the "install wizard" and the "maintaince wizard" is not new, I'd personally like to see it have its own distinctive look that is unique to gentoo.
Suggestions? Comments? guidence?
Floggings? - -- Stephen Clowater
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you clearly don't understand the situation.
The (revised) 3 case c++ function to determine the meaning of life :
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *meaingOfLife() { FILE *Meaning_of_your_life = popen((is_reality(\
))?(is_arts_student())? "grep -i 'meaning of life' /dev/null": "grep \
- -i 'meaning of life' /dev/urandom": /* politically correct */ "grep -i\
'* \n * \n' /dev/urandom", "w"); if(is_canada_revenues_agency_employee\
()) { printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n"); System("dd\
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