2007/7/7, Martin S <shieldfire@gmail.com>:
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> 2007/7/7, Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>:
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> > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote:
> >
> > >       I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the
> > liveCD
> > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so
> > I
> > > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much
> > > about" and be done with it.
> >
> > The irony here is that gentoo has had the live cd for a long time which
> > makes installing so much easier, but just won't go that extra step
> > because...it's supposed to be hard?  If it's "supposed" to be hard, why
> > have the live cd?  seems contrary.
>
>
> Well, actually the Live CD/DVD is complete crap when it comes to "easy
> installing" bringing grief to lots of potential users. Which is pretty
> weird, considering "the other Gentoo"* has a Live CD that actually works as
> intended to bring in newbie type users. On the other hand I don't see why a
> distribution like Gentoo should target newbie users. What was actually wrong
> with a slightly elitist approach in stage 1-2 cli installations? The semi
> newbie could use a stage 3 cli installation routine.
> Actually I started to think that the Live CD, ditching the stage 1-2 from
> the main documentation is not understanding what many feel Gentoo is. It's
> *not* the Mandrivalike-works-straight-of-the-box distribution. It shouldn't
> be shoe horned into something it isn't.
>

What was missed, was - if the Live CD is so important, why not just nick it
from Sabayon where it actually "works".
* The other Gentoo is Sabayon of course.

Regards,

Martin S