Stuart Longland wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
My recommendation would be to visit your local Wal-Mart and look at
their low-end Linux PC. I believe it's Linspire-based. Then tell your
business partner that you need twice the performance at half the cost. :)
Installing Gentoo would give you that anyway wouldn't it? :-P
Hmmm ... Linspire licenses cost how much by the thousands?
Idea, would it be possible to create a profile for setting up retail machines (say a subclass of 2004.3) then once fully set up, just switch them to running the 2004.3 profile?
Why do you need a profile to install a retail machine? All you need is a server and something like "ghost for UNIX" (g4u) to do direct-to-disk copies. You'd need a script so when the user opened the box and turned it on, there was some nice user-friendly way to set up the name, IP address, etc. Even if you require them to be connected to a DHCP server, you still have to make it so it comes up in ten minutes with no support call.
That to me looks like the closest comprimise between the two. Simply emerge everything as you normally would to install the usual packages customers would want, then simply switch the profile over -- allowing the customer to easily unmerge packages at will.
That's still engineering ... you need to be thinking about manufacturing.
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