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 1JDPL4-0003nt-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:14:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D302AE0AFE; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E946E0AFC for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6708B65387 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.949 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.949 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.650, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KxOOsj5vLk32 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549B0651CF for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JDPGU-0000vD-8h for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:02 +0000 Received: from 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.72.87.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:02 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:08:05 +0100 Message-ID: <3902701.BmRSot1XaP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <6142e6140801110037p7d5167c5y619b318ba1bf652e@mail.gmail.com> <1200041896.10339.13.camel@localhost> <20080111091237.GB12107@localhost> <1343558.gq7T5pozvP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> 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=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 05637d6f-a222-48f6-bb6d-4f1583174df8 X-Archives-Hash: d3333fba3e7fbac80db10878ce0da3d9 =C2=B7 Galevsky : > On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Michael Schmarck > wrote: [...] >> As far as I'm concerned, the Gentoo install CD could easily be dropped >> without a loss. >> >> Michael >=20 > I'll try to make you understand it..... After reading your reply, I've got to say that you failed. > GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ? Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts in creating live CDs is leveraged. NIH is not a good point of view, if you ask me. > Using extra rescue=20 > systems is a liberty, of course, but why should it be a must ? I Easy - to make use of expert knowledge. To save resources, as that's obviously a scarcity in Gentoo. > always installed my gentoo from the current gentoo installCD since I Fine. I never did that. > see no gain in downloading and burning one more system... Uhm? That doesn't make sense. Downloading GRML is no worse than downloading a Gentoo Live CD. > [...] I don't want to take care about > versions=20 Me neither, but that's a dream. > and news about other distros/rescue systems, since I am using=20 > Gentoo which provides me all I need to setup.=20 Fine for you. That's obviously not the case for Shaochun. > So, of course, as far as=20 > one of linux distro at least will provide a way to boot up an > up-to-date kernel, all the other distros won't have to maintain their > own releases, but in the end, I am not sure that the whole community > wants to launch the Windows Ubuntu installer, download the required > packages manager from the web and update the system from the good > repository. I don't get, what you were trying to say here. Michael Schmarck --=20 Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list