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."

Comments

So

[Neil Blender]

Do you have to compile this thing first?

Re:Notorious for its speed?!?

[Martin Blank]

Seems so. After all, my LFS CLI is wicked-fast.

Re:But what about the 1337 Gentoo users?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can women block pops up for you?

Yes, they can. Believe me. It depends on "uglyness", and I do not mean it only from the physiological point of view .

CC.

Because of a lack of understanding

[karmaflux]

...gentoo users are notorious for failing to comprehend the implications of their system philosophy.

Re:Yawn

[caluml]

(17yo, non-tech) daughter

So how's she doing now anyway? I haven't seen her since we were at school together. Michelle, her name is right?

Is that a *good* thing?

[overshoot]

Don't you see...that the best part. Gentoo users will no longer think they are special because they can follow directions and stand a large amount of pain to put together an OS. Now Gentoo can stand on its real merits.

Hmmm -- from the POV of a college-aged daugher, I'm not sure that this would be a Good Thing.

As it is, when DD tells guys that she runs Linux, they're impressed. When she tells them that she runs Gentoo, they're in awe. When she tells them that she did a Stage One install, those who aren't running away in terror fall on their faces and worship her.

As a father, I like it that way: most of them running away in terror, the rest face-down on the ground. I sleep better.

Re:Is that a *good* thing?

[Saxton]

As a father, I like it that way: most of them running away in terror, the rest face-down on the ground. I sleep better.

Are you sure that has anything to do with Gentoo?

:-)

-Aaron

Re:I Dub Thee, "Sir Troll"

[deangelo]

I don't consider my machine to be a beast, 1.4 tbird with .5gig ram (pc133) it only took me two days to get up and running. That includes Xorg with accelerated drivers, Gnome and all the trimmings from stage 1, everything from source except the closed video drivers. Most of the time I wasn't even home. I'd just ssh home from time to time to make sure it was still bussy. I think your post is a bit more trollish than the orignal. More to the point, I think this whole busness of the gentoo install procedure being difficult is a misnomer. The gentoo handbook is an extremly thurough walkthrough, I'm no *nix expert and I managed to configure my kernal. Granted I can read at almost a grade 2 level so I have that over the common masses.

codohundo

Re:Yawn

[Darling Daughter]

I prefer to do my own pimping, dad just helps with the networking.

[OFF FREAKING TOPIC] holy crap

[SirTalon42]

"because you told gcc to unroll some loop (-funroll loops)"

Wow... I just realized it was "Unroll Loops" and not "Fun Roll Loops"

Re:Yawn

[SlongNY]

Maybe they can come over my place to install gentoo for me.