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by **lxnay** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 13:16

Well, Anaconda Installer will replace Gentoo Linux Installer with the next RC2. ETA? 1 month.

Are you happy?

Let's discuss it here

by **wolfden** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 13:20

Sweet - have heard good things about that. Apparently VLOS uses that too and it had great reviews for installation wise

by **lxnay** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 13:26

Yes, I am in touch with the developer of VLOS, he's a very nice person

and VLOS is a good distro,btw. But there's too may redhat stuff in it. The thing that I want to do is removing every redhat-only stuff from anaconda and creating a more standard installer.

The beta testing will start from here (after the internal one).

by **wolfden** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 13:42

I just know the Gentoo Installer thing needs a lot of work. I've never really had any luck with it. It's not ready for prime time that is for sure.

Since I never got the 64bit DVD version installed, does it have the KDE desktop on it?? I'm not big on gnome and I know I can always emerge kde after the fact, just that dreaded compile time involved kinda blows. I believe having gnome and kde installed is the best thing for having applications work the best. Seems like they require each other's libraries or something like that.

Gentoo likes grub and gnome and neither are my thing. Lilo in my opinion works much better and a lot easier to figure out compared to that chainloader thing. No biggie tho, it can all be customized after the install.

Definately need a different login background pic in RR4 - that hen vs the chicken thing is just strange. I like the one in RR64 tho.

by **cvill64** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:51

wolfden wrote:I just know the Gentoo Installer thing needs a lot of work. I've never really had any luck with it. It's not ready for prime time that is for sure.

Since I never got the 64bit DVD version installed, does it have the KDE desktop on it?? I'm not big on gnome and I know I can always emerge kde after the fact, just that dreaded compile time involved kinda blows. I believe having gnome and kde installed is the best thing for having applications work the best. Seems like they require each other's libraries or something like that.

Gentoo likes grub and gnome and neither are my thing. Lilo in my opinion works much better and a lot easier to figure out compared to that chainloader thing. No biggie tho, it can all be customized after the install.

Definately need a different login background pic in RR4 - that hen vs the chicken thing is just strange. I like the one in RR64 tho.

ehehe, that installer does need a lot of work...and another dev with a different attitude....

Yes, KDE is the default desktop of Sabayon Linux, but we have multiple desktops to keep up with the choice that Gentoo gives

We do have both Gnome and KDE, also FluxBox, enlightenment, XFCE, and soon to add a modified FluxBox for multimedia desktop experience, just a little hint there

Gentoo likes all, that's why we use it to develop, compiling from source allows multiple programs to be highly optimized for any system hardware running it. However, grub is the only boot manager for 64 bit versions currently.

Well, already replied to your avatar, so email me and we'll discuss other background choices

by **poring** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:01

Well, this installer sounds like a good idea. The other installer looks to be improperly maintained.

by **Goatee** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 19:45

Having used anaconda for an install (in centos) it is good but RPM based.
Will the version here be packed with portage's goodness?

PS. I can't vote on this poll in kde 3.3

by **cvill64** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 21:30

the anaconda installer will sport dvd to hd install process and probably a stage3 install if possible

by **jsyjr** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 18:03

lxnay wrote:Yes, I am in touch with the developer of VLOS, he's a very nice person and VLOS is a good distro,btw. But there's too many redhat stuff in it.

I have not used kanotix but I wondered whether you were aware of it. This NewsForge review claims

In 'My desktop OS: Kanotix' Andrei Raevsky wrote:The creator of Kanotix, JÃ¶rg Schirottke (a.k.a. Kano), based his distribution on the already excellent Knoppix, but he improved the hardware recognition with his own scripts, which are widely regarded as the most capable hardware recognition scripts currently on any distro.

It could represent another installer resource. Guaranteed to have less redhat stuff in it

by **lxnay** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 18:05

I am removing every stupid redhat stuff from anaconda

So, that's not a problem.

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