Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works

JonLatane writes "Without a doubt, Gentoo has set itself apart from every other distro out there. Because it's source-based, it's notorious for its speed. Because of emerge, it's notorious for being simple to maintain. And because of its "install system" (if it can be called that), it's notorious for scaring off potential users before they even get to try it. Well, that's all going to change, because there is a graphical Gentoo installer in the works. It can run with a dialog frontend that bears a striking similarity to Ubuntu, or for faster systems a GTK+ frontend is available."

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Re:I Dub Thee, "Sir Troll"

[NekkidBob]

So, you've been using Linux since Torvalds wrote it back in the early 90's? Back then you had to have Minix just to install Linux, bet that was fun. Because if I remember correctly, Linux was born in '93, only 12 years ago, and that's if it was written in the begining of '93. And what are these Linux kernel based systems, I wasn't aware of any systems based on the Linux kernel, other than Linux?

It's already been done before...

[LibrePensador]

Vidalinux is Gentoo with the Anaconda installer. So there isn't much novelty to this project. In my LUG, the most dangerous users are Gentoo users.

Usually, they have been running Linux for less than six months. They barely understand unix permissions or init levels or any other basic stuff, but are entirely self-complacent because they managed to type enough commands to install Gentoo. They are also terrible open source advocates because they scare away potential users by pretending that there is no other good way to install a Linux system.

Mandrake's and Red Hat's installers are easier, more flexible, faster and produce a working system every time.