I cat be botherd to read all your emails. The reason I am using gentoo is because it is flexible and will take up less room compared to ubuntu or knoppix.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
James Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:jt@imen.org.uk">jt@imen.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
>> Argh well I have started and you probally wont. I want to get this<br>>> thing moving. How can a livecd not be user friendly (its not like you<br>>> can install extra software on a live cd and btw gentoo does have X
<br>>> you know !!)? If you use ubuntu you are putting aload of extra crap<br>>> no one wants. What make you think you should be the leader. You smell.<br><non-joking><br>Live CD's NEED crap on them. I mean that - you're demoing cool stuff on
<br>the Live CD, but does the install to HD part of the live cd need to<br>install that stuff? Dosn't the knoppix hd installer (one of them at<br>least, theres about four) allow you to install anything from base Debian
<br>(with NO crap) all the way upto the full knoppix stuff from the cd onto<br>your hd?<br></non-joking><br>> The Gentoo crowd could stick to the Gentoo philosophy and have<br>> everything compile for the machine in question. It'd only take a few
<br>> hours to boot a Gentoo live-CD, but it'd be totally worth it for the<br>> 3% speed increase :)<br><jokular><br>Oh Please! Noooo! Not that Gentoo based is slower or anything - but I<br>would say that MOST of the software you use isnt faster with custom
<br>compiles, and the few bits that are left that could do with custom<br>compiles, serious debian/ubuntuers do anyways, but you dont have the<br>slow install time of normal software. is your Firefox compile really<br>that much faster then my bog standard one? Can you tell? Really?
<br>Honestly? (actually, on my new dual core, because the system is faster<br>then the IO, you probably couldn't, because the processor is waiting for<br>devices, Ok ok, use the enviromental card that you used less clock
<br>cycles so is cheaper in energy but I just typed apt-get install firefox<br>and saved my sanity).<br><br>Did you know that you can get a debian package to make your box into a<br>gentoo one? It does a download time, then fakes processor loading for
<br>half an hour before installign the binary, just to get that real gentoo<br>experience.<br><br>I saw someone dist-upgrade a gentoo box one day. I say one day, I came<br>on the saturday, saw him doing it, and came on the sunday and he was
<br>still waiting for the compiles to finish - he swapped to debian the week<br>after I showed him how to do it faster ( I say showed, I mean in a<br>gloating No wait, I ll make a cup of tea whilst it does this.. oh too<br>
late its FINISHED).<br></jokular><br><br><br>JT<br><br>ps knoppix / ubuntoo have stuff on them like sftp servers for booting<br>other boxes from ram on eithernet cards as part of the live cd. Crazy!<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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