Adding a console chat program to the installation-CD (statically builded to minimize troubles) could prove to be very efficient: - new gentoo-users can connect to OPN, #gentoo to ask questions - experienced gentoo-users can do interactive gentoo-installations during online presentation or installfests (f.i. LUGs who do IRC-demonstrations/installations) - lonely people can get some fun on irc while they install Gentoo on their pc (i.e. they don't have to go play on their playstation as mentioned in the install.txt ;) But the most important one is the first (direct help). If the person only has 1 pc he can't use another pc to connect to OPN, #gentoo. I don't think it would be difficult. One can f.i. statically compile irssi or BitchX, give the necessary commands in the install.txt on how to connect to OPN, #gentoo. The problem is security... everything you do on the CD is as user "root". IRC-clients that run as root... *brrrrr*. Perhaps we can add another user to the bootable CD and do a suid/sgid for that user on the irssi-binary? This way, you don't have to kludge with login's and so on and so on...
Is this on the live cd now? If not I would second that motion for maybe irssi...
irssi + bitchx are on the PPC Live cd cnadidate now
irssi is on 1.4_rc1 and later x86 livecds. Closing this bug; thanks for reporting it :O)
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
