Ubuntu CD's for Free

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:02:10 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> > I have. There is much I like and respect about Gentoo. But until someone cares
> > enough about it to give it a real installer I won't be able to consider it for
> > any kind of serious work.
> 
> Ha - that's funny because I use it for all my servers for "serious" work.
> 

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I get a chuckle out of this, Ajai. I've been on this list and plugging
gentoo for a l-o-n-g time, so much so that people used to interject
into widely diverse topics comments like "Pretty soon Collins will be
claiming that gentoo will be a cure for this." Now they've got Ajai to
pick on <grin>

I'm pretty neutral about gentoo installation. I've only used the
install procedure twice in the last 4 years, so the manual process is
fine for me. There are those, however, who want to do multiple
installs, and a graphical installer, or even a well maintained set of
shell scripts (there are some being developed) would be a boon for
these folks. I find the argument that we don't need a better installer
to be achronistic (I almost said lame, but I don't want to offend). I
wouldn't be offended by a simple installer that asked me a few
questions and then triggered all the untars, emerges, etc. while I'm
off browsing my favorite sites.

YMMV,

-- 
 Collins