What's after OpenLinux?

Roger Oberholtzer roger.oberholtzer
Mon May 17 11:45:20 PDT 2004


On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:20:59 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> I'm surprised that no one has done it yet.  It would not be a matter of
> rocket science to distribute a gentoo based distribution from one or
> more (different architecture) base home system.  Creating binary update
> packages and/or complete replacement tarballs for distribution on CD
> would be a relatively trivial undertaking.  Binary update CDs could
> include a script to tailor anything desired.  The complete replacement
> CDs would only require relatively trivial modifications to the gentoo
> Livecd.  

I know that the binary update part of Gentoo would be OK. The problem is
the initial install. It is not something one would want to do on a regular
basis to many systems. It is this that I think is the major stumbling
block for production use.


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