Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Hi James,

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:29:18PM -0500, James Homuth wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madumlao@gmail.com] 
> Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's
> advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
> 
> To which the guru replied: "If you just want a CD installer, then you can
> have this.", and he gave the student another Ubuntu CD.
> 
> At this point the student was enlightened.
> 
> I think you just outlined the exact kind of "help" that keeps most people
> from switching to Gentoo. If that had been, for example, you and I having
> that particular conversation, I'd of probably smacked you with the CD and
> got my answers from somewhere else. Since most people, particularly most
> people new to linux, assume CD == installer. Also, while I like the general
> do it yourself attitude Gentoo takes right from instalation, there's nothing
> accessible about it. Which means, even though I know all the information's
> right there on the CD, I still won't actually be able to do it (can't see
> the screen, after all). So yes, there are still areas wherein the use of an
> installer, or even just the provision of better software on the CD, would
> probably make it easier for people to get into it.
 
 Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list?  You might want to
 subscribe there.  There are a couple of things that still need to
 happen (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can
 get them put on the live cd, but that is being worked on.

 For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to
 install from that cd.

For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh
connection if you can get to the box that way.

- -- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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