On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:56:13PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > As for rescue scenarios, that has been obsolete for a long time. For at least > 10 years now
It is still used in some rescue situations, for example, an initramfs panic. https://askubuntu.com/q/137655/ (This post was eight years ago but is still applicable today. I still can't believe 2012 was almost a decade ago; it feels like yesterday...) > And this is a desktop. BTW, I'm curious - are there really embedded > systems, especially ones with extreme limitations, running gentoo? I have seen them around. There used to be this great machine by Marvell called a "SheevaPlug", and whilst its limitations weren't _extreme_, it could certainly be classed as "embedded" by some. Think a power-line networking device, but a full computer ! See [1], [2], and [3]. Anyway, that came with some peculiar variant of Linux with some proprietary stuff on, which I (along with almost every other user, I assume), replaced with a bare Gentoo installation. There was a moderately-sized mailing list a few years ago which was dedicated to Gentoo on the Sheeva, although I think the domain, and thus archives, have been lost to history. > virtuals are another area which I need to study, sigh They're not very intuitive, but just one of those things that you learn about naturally while casually using Gentoo over a number of years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/Boards/Marvell_Sheevaplug [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20140717151031/https://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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