[gentoo-dev] Re: Just a suggestion

[iggy@gentoo.org]

[big5] KH c writes: 

> Hello developers, 
> 
>   I have an idea concerning Gentoo Live Distro. As a
> Live Distro, it is essential that it is trimmed,
> leaving the biggest space available for application.
> However, in order to trim it we certainly can NOT
> include drivers of ALL kind of hardwares imaginable,
> thereby it render some Gentoo user with no driver
> included in the distro. My suggestion is that possible
> to change its installation seqence so when it discover
> that the hardware drivers is NOT avilable, it will
> AUTOMATICALLY download it from a certain website and
> install it all by itself. So as long as the user can
> connect to the internet(So we should MAXMIZE the LAN
> driver support), his/her basic i/o device supported;
> s/he can use all his/her hardware under Gentoo. It
> will save all the trouble for new Gentoo user to
> search all over the internet.
>   What do you think?

So, you want to replace compiled drivers with some software, and a huge 
database of all the hardware in the world, along with wher to download it 
from, etc. etc., and hope that nobody decides to move stuff on their 
servers, becasue then everybody's live cd's are worthless. Not that I'm 
saying your idea is without merit, but you certainly would have to find a 
way to make it seamless. You can't Joe Dialup downloading 26 megs of tarball 
just so he can get his mouse working. 

 --Brian Jackson (iggy) 

> 
> Regards,
> Euler Cheung
> Project Manager
> LinuxLiveCD.com


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