[Lincs] Distro

[Chris Adams]

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.

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