[gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Wout Mertens]

Hey there,

Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat on
#gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
explains how to use it)

Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

Thoughts?

Wout.

Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Einar Karttunen]

On 10.06 12:45, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
> console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat on
> #gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
> explains how to use it)
Sounds like a nice idea. 

> Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
> know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

irssi of course :-)

It seems that the most popular text mode irc-clients are
irssi, bitchx and epic/ircii. Both irssi and bitchx offer
more features than epic/ircii. Bitchx is two times larger
than irssi.

Of course the best approach would be customisable install CDs so that  
we can have irssi and vi on the install CD and not annoy the users
with a different taste.

- Einar Karttunen

Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Joachim Blaabjerg]

On Monday 10 June 2002 12:45, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
> console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat on
> #gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
> explains how to use it)

Sounds like a good idea to me... We'd probably have to create a new user on 
the install CD, though. We don't want to encourage our users to IRC as root, 
now do we? Perhaps an `alias irssi='su - gentoo-install -c irssi'` could be 
an idea.

> Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
> know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

Yeah, I agree that irssi is the best choice.

Best Regards,

-- 
Joachim Blaabjerg
styx@SuxOS.org
www.SuxOS.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Rufiao Valhacouto]

It could also be interesting to add links (the text-mode browser) as
well, to let users fetch documentation on www.gentoo.org.

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 07:45, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
> console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat on
> #gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
> explains how to use it)
> 
> Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
> know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Wout.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez]

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  |Hey there,
  |
  |Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
  |console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat
on
  |#gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
  |explains how to use it)
  |
  |Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
  |know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

and add too links or lynx(www navigator) and mpg123 or mpg321?

regards

José Alberto Suárez López
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<josealberto.suarez@hispalinux.es>
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http://gimp.es.gnome.org

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Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD

[Bjarke Sørensen]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:12:02PM +0200, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote:
>   |Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
>   |console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat
> on
>   |#gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
>   |explains how to use it)

little?

>   |Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
>   |know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

irssi is a good no-nonsense choice.
though a config and the stuff mentioned by Jonas should be included
(non-root environment).

> and add too links or lynx(www navigator) and mpg123 or mpg321?

And in the end I would need to install Gentoo, but merely boot the CD.
I hope you are _not_ serious about mpg.

links and Lynx are reasonable, but the cd-player has been invented.


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