From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDyj5-0004BA-6g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:01:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B475E05EC; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDC0E05A5 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1669674fga.14 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:01:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=FpcTwarHHGsbhmsjjXs8eVADWY/VI2sWs7BaMpPJx40=; b=PgdkdYWYDAkWZudy1aN7t4ZZwJ4Y6uF8/CbzbZYajRo2f+N01kPx1mp5aGX94v389iSrt3DcvX0rrH1JjpkCRuhp2DU3gEwCjkJIoCF8KRG744LDNOyx7KTgwfaMWv2tcK0eb+SsNLtWTatF0CzYYoextn18i2tjYrJ65CecOLE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=jUjIvLrZOvkTw4VJ7w/Yyadq/znSmRpTZ3QM7MENQRMq06LqLEjdJhPRaIkdGINDcLVBbQIdlEjQv7Iw6SG0NwVpocHhCWeEqw3Yr9Hwg2BJvnTN9UYYAN9fSZD4AqWA4BaZh+IQpTNJGjvwnjofIVGTW2lESibM/wSosp45ow4= Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr5374162hue.31.1200214889625; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.194.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i7sm309436nfh.18.2008.01.13.01.01.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:01:28 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:56:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <1343558.gq7T5pozvP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801131056.14159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0cf9156c-9163-4aa5-9060-767b6c0d1170 X-Archives-Hash: 291c3ae567bf2c69f59347638a888fc9 On Saturday 12 January 2008, James wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, the Gentoo install CD could easily be > > dropped without a loss. > > Well, I differ with this statement 100%. What, IMHO, needs to > happened is the whole install process be changed to a minimal working > kernel and basic tools. Then you fork the install in the direction as > to what the system is to be used for: embedded-gentoo, firewall, > bridge, managed switch, server (mail, web, dns, terminal etc etc) and > last the complicated nightmare of a workstation =A0(kde vs gnome vs etc > etc). Excellent idea. When can we expect your first alpha-release? When we have rough consensus and your running code, we can include your=20 project in the list of workable install methods. =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list