From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RxseP-0000rA-Qz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:08:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26A30E0CDD; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE0FE0BF6 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RxsdD-002ZrT-AN for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:07:43 +0700 Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so2130722lah.40 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:07:39 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.112.48.193 with SMTP id o1mr302863lbn.1.1329365259016; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.38.194 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:07:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.38.194 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:07:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F3BC43C.6060901@trausch.us> References: <4F3BC43C.6060901@trausch.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:07:38 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo) From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec553fdfa0a597d04b90cf8c8 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 029bfe1a-9aa7-4cb3-a1b4-dcb5d8a4aaf6 X-Archives-Hash: 3ab78748fb92f94b36bfe6f28ea1c6d8 --bcaec553fdfa0a597d04b90cf8c8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, "mike@trausch.us" wrote: > > On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Found this blogpost serendipitously: > > > > http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ > > > > so, are we brothers? :-) > > > > But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM! You just > need LVM built-in and GRUB 2! > > *ducks* > Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got the vibes that Gentoo's is the one where he didn't explicitly point out something bad against; only a lamentation that he really don't want to spend too much time compiling everything. The blog writer's closing paragraph is very poetic it hurts; for I'm about to leave my beloved Gentoo servers behind... Rgds, --bcaec553fdfa0a597d04b90cf8c8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, "mike@trau= sch.us" <mike@trausch.us= > wrote:
>
> On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > Found this blogpost serendipitously:
> >
> > http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pi= pes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/
> >
> > so, are we brothers? :-)
> >
>
> But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM! =C2=A0= You just
> need LVM built-in and GRUB 2!
>
> *ducks*
>

Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are= against initrd/initramfs :-P

That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got t= he vibes that Gentoo's is the one where he didn't explicitly point = out something bad against; only a lamentation that he really don't want= to spend too much time compiling everything.

The blog writer's closing paragraph is very poetic it hurts; for I&#= 39;m about to leave my beloved Gentoo servers behind...

Rgds,

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