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Petreley On Simplifying Software Installation for Linux

Posted by timothy on from the but-gentoo dept.

markcappel writes "RAM, bandwidth, and disk space are cheap while system administrator time is expensive. That's the basis for Nicholas Petreley's 3,250-word outline for making Linux software installation painless and cross-distro." The summary paragraph gives some hint as to why this isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

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  1. Word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That's the basis for Nicholas Petreley's 3,250-word outline for making Linux software installation painless and cross-distro."

    Was it necessary to include the word count? It's hard enough to get slashdotters to read a small article and post intelligently, this cant help...

  2. emerge maybe easy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But installing gentoo is still hard.

    Insert cd.
    login in from the command line
    net-setup ethx
    cfdisk
    mkrieserfs
    wget ftp.gentoo-mirror.net/pub/gentoo/stage1.tar
    tar xzjdocmnaf stage1.tar
    mkdir /mnt/gentoo/
    chroot /mnt/gentoo
    scripts/bootstrap.sh
    (10 hours later)
    emerge ufed
    edit use flags
    emerge system
    emerge gentoo-sources
    configure kernel, having do lspci and googling obscure serial numbers to find out what modules to compile
    install kernel
    muck around with it's non standard bootloader
    install cron and sysloggers
    umount
    reboot
    spend two days sorting out the kernel panics
    wait all week for kde to emerge.
    processor dies of over work
    huge nasty electricty bill arrives after running emerge for over a week 24/7

    in other words, no