Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
Hi.
Peter Weber wrote:
Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users
out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all
the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that.
Even users with high-speed
On Feb 4, 2008 10:26 PM, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're always welcome to build your own media if you don't like what we put
out.
Keep in mind that we are *volunteers*. We like the LiveCD, because it's easier
to build and test.
Some people just like to stick with the stuff
Peter Weber wrote:
Hello,
I now that Chris Gianelloni loves his LiveCD an the GUI-Installer and I
know that he don't like to accept changes he don't support personally.
But I do that know, so please don't kill me:
Gentoo should have again an Universal-CD again, because:
* Support for
I second this, in particular the part about including stage3 on the CD;
I'm always annoyed when, after downloading and burning the LiveCD, I
need to download the stage3, possibly from a laptop without working
wireless.
Sincerely,
Randall
Peter Weber wrote:
Hello,
I now that Chris Gianelloni
On Feb 4, 2008 11:36 PM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd love a minimal + stage3 + portage-snapshot + stuff you really need
(kernel sources, grub, maybe a syslogger)
You just described an Universal CD.
What I described wouldn't necessarily be a 700MB media.
Seems I have to
Thanks for your answer. I respect this fully!
I just thought that this was a good chance for starting a discussion.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:18 -0600, Brent Baude wrote:
Peter and company,
It is important for you to understand that we, releng, are in the
process of 2008.0 right now. As
Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users
out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all
the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that.
Even users with high-speed connections want to stay independent and
free, relying on a
On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 PM, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That doesn't even make sense. A universal CD is nothing but a minimal plus
some
stuff. You can't merge them together, unless you're talking about getting rid
of
the minimal all together, and then that's even dumber.
I'm
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:33 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
That means less time taken and less stress for us. If you
don't like it, become a dev and volunteer for release engineering, and
build the
universal CDs yourself.
Copy n pasteing a config that would be the Universal CD is worth
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:49 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, Peter Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The LiveDVD includes stages and a snapshot.
Interesting and good, but the LiveDVD is, let us say the truth -
overkill.
A other good solution would be merging
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:58 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
That doesn't even make sense. A universal CD is nothing but a minimal plus
some
stuff. You can't merge them together, unless you're talking about getting rid
of
the minimal all together, and then that's even dumber.
--
Andrew
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:49 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, Peter Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The LiveDVD includes stages and a snapshot.
Interesting and good, but the LiveDVD is, let us say the truth -
overkill.
A other good solution would be merging
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:50 +0100, Peter Weber wrote:
Hours for, mhhh, five lines of code?
Five lines of code, gathering the distfiles together, and lots and lots
of testing.
Seriously, buddy. Do me a favor and quit responding. You've shown that
you don't really have a clue what's involved in
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