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Gentoo 1.4 Final Released
markds writes "After a long wait, the Gentoo team has finally released the latest version of their distribution.
Gentoo Linux 1.4 is now available. 1.4 includes automated kernel builds, CFLAGS generation, the Gentoo Reference Platform, and support for netless installation." And Beost writes "It looks like our favorite disto gentoo has released two of the new v1.4 LiveCDs. Enjoy!"
Reader Luke-Jr points to the list of official mirrors and "unofficial (though created by developers) BitTorrents." (Of course, you can also buy CD sets for a variety of architectures from the Gentoo store.)
It's time to finally start that Gentoo install with the 2.6 kernel series that I've been putting off.
I've been seriously too interested in the outside this summer. I have an actual tan, a girlfriend, and have put enough miles on the bike that I have to replace the tires. Enough! It's time for this insanity to stop!
Time to download and emerge! Bring on those multi-hour computer sessions! Woot!
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emerge -upD world will do the same exact thing as installing from this cd. ie it will rebuild all software to the latest version available in portage. Whether you would really want to do this and ruin your beautifull, stable system is, of course, up to you :)
Yeah the best part about gentoo is... emerge openoffice 16 hours later you have a build.
Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic
.debs can be rebuilt with
a handful of commands, my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with
the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running
BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."
.rpms together on the command line, and
that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages
instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together
(which the system wasn't designed for)."
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...
"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."
"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and
"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..." "You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH
"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -09 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."
"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"
Don't forget SCO's $699 licensing fee... ;-)
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
USE="-SCO" emerge gentoo
As a Gentoo fanatic, I do this monthly, which is roughly the amount of time it takes to finish.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
I'm still compiling the last version!
The torrents have been slashdotted, but my download is going slow. What gives?
I've never used apt-get. Does it compile from sources like emerge?
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I think that would actually be $1398.
I'm sure there is a byte or two of infringing code on each CD.
(p.s. yes, i know it's a per CPU fee.)
lysergically yours
I'm still building 1.3
is it too much to ask for gentoo to get its on topic category?
This is Gentoo; you're supposed to download the vectors and compile your own logo on each box where you want to see it.