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- Subject: Re: [MLUG] more gentoo
- From: "Ian Monroe" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:01:24 -0600
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I saw some screenshots of it, it explictly says that the purpose of
the GUI isn't to make things easier but just quicker.
Anyways, whether ncurses or GUI, distros that rely on installers do
kind of annoy me. It limits how you can install the distro. For
instance, Installing a gentoo chroot is easy since thats exactly what
you do when you install Gentoo for-real.
Ian
On 3/1/06, Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> i really liked the manual aspect of gentoo, though. i'm a little sad
> to see it fall victim to gui install fever.
>
> right now, i'm building a linux from scratch system. i'm working on a
> very small, via mainboard focused router/firewall install. thought i'd
> give lfs a try. i am a glutton for linux punishment.
>
> :)
>
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