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Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released
Quique writes "Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures. Additionally, the Gentoo Hardened team is announcing the inaugural release of a security-enhanced Gentoo platform for the x86 architecture.
Installation stages, LiveCDs, and GRP sets can be
found on the mirrors.
More information about the Gentoo Hardened project
can be found on its project page.
For more information, please consult the
documentation,
mailing lists,
user forums and official IRC channels.
The new Gentoo
Store has also been announced." I've put more of the release notes below - might also be worth checking out the tutorial for LPI certification done by the President/CEO of Gentoo; there's also a note about Gentoo's newest meta-release tool, Catalyst below as well. Looks like it's not out yet - stay tuned for more information.
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In addition to many bugfixes and security updates since the 1.4 release,
Gentoo Linux 2004.0 contains a cutting-edge development toolchain and user
environment including, but not limited to, Linux kernel 2.6.3, GCC 3.3.2,
GLIBC 2.3.2, KDE 3.2, GNOME 2.4.2, and xfce4.
Gentoo Linux 2004.0 marks the debut of Catalyst, the new Gentoo release meta-tool. Using Catalyst, developers and users can create and customize every aspect of their Gentoo Linux system; from installation stages, to bootable LiveCDs, to customized binary packages for the Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP). For more information on Catalyst, please see the Catalyst project page and online documentation."
Cool! So if I start the stage1 compile on my P90 it should be ready by Easter.
luckily i download this 4 hours ago...
:)
now all you guys can enjoy the fleed
# emerge sync
# emerge -uD world
That has to be the *biggest* version jump in history! From 1.4 to 2004.0!
By M, version 1.0
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards 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." .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat
supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), 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."
"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..." .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)."
"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 -O9 -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!"
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Also note that existing gentoo users only need to "emerge -[D]u world" to upgrade to the 2004 release.
Karma cannot be described by words alone.
Anybody know the location or a mirror with the non-sse version of hardened Gentoo? I can't seem to find a mirror anywhere.
Because compiling from source is what makes Gentoo, and most Linux distros so powerful. That is what those make and use flags are for.
Gentoo is a distro that is designed to be fully customizable. With binaries compiled on your own computer, you'll get better performance.
...don't question it!!!
Has anyone here installed Gentoo on a dual-boot configuration? I've got a 3.2GHz system with a Radeon 9700 and I'm running XP Pro on it. I was thinking of installing FreeBSD on it which I run with two other systems, but ultimately this system is my primary desktop and I'd like to have a Linux dist installed so I could take advantage of, well, Linux desktop ease-of-use (never thought I'd say that!). Still, I like BSD's ports system, which is why I'm interested in Gentoo (the portage system is supposed to be similar).
... Any info would be appreciated ...
I've never installed Gentoo, though, so I'd be curious about what Gentoo users would have to say about this and how it compares to, say, Mandrake or Suse
Chr0m0Dr0m!C
My P-III 450 and I will let you know what we think of it in about a week.
Josh
as if the Gentoo zealots needed any more encouragement to post.
This is just a way to sidetrack them, so they won't be posting to other threads while this one is active.
On a more serious note: why do people run Gentoo? You learn enough w/ Slackware, you get pretty recent software in Debian unstable, and the performance optimization seems to be mostly a myth.
So, zealots, fire away! I might even be convinced to give this one a try - previous Gentoo experiment was short circuited by unavoidable crash on entering X.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
That's why Gentoo Linux LiveCDs provide GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform): a complete set of precompiled per-architecture-optimized binary packages a-la-slackware (including X, KDE, OpenOffice and more) to speed up the installation process for those who don't want or can't wait for compile process to complete.
After having this distro reccomended to me, I tried it out on a new laptop, and to be honest, I'd say it was not a great experience. Being a linux nub, I guess it was a bad distro to choose as my first install, what with no automated installer, and freaking 4603453 years to compile anything. emerge kde took a few years, as did anything else. While I acknowledge the benefits of compiling everything with optizations for the exact platform it's on, and also realize that installing is a one time thing and using is a many time thing, I still would say there's not a good enough mix between precompiled and source distributed in stage1 and stage2 releases, and stage3 jumps right to all compiled for you. Where's the median?
Canadian Cynic, canadian politics is less boring than you
The main reason I use gentoo is bugfixing made easy. emerge your soft, if you find a bug you can fix it yourself quite fast by re-running emerge, stopping the merge when make begins, and hacking in /var/tmp/portage/$soft.
Well, it may not be "fast" if it's a hard bug but it's noticeably faster than with a binary-package distro where you'd have to go get a tgz, figure out the configure options you want, and go into bugfix mode - fucking up your distro's package database by the way.
blah
Can KDE compile without help on a clean system? That would be nifty. I'm talking about the 8 days where kde-base wouldn't compile due to a bug in the build script that affected fam where the build script used a tool that was masked in the stable branch. This bug could not have happened if someone had tried it on a stable system before it was released to the stable branch. Mod me a troll if you like, but I'm not making this up.
When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
I went to three diff mirrors. No ISO for 2004.0/livecd/x86
???
What gives???
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Check out catalyst. It allows you to build your own stage taballs for Gentoo. You can even build the binary GRP packages to your specs and it will automatically arrange for the packges to be burnable to more than one CD. Talk about flexibility. You can cook your Gentoo up how ya like.
What I really want to know is what they have planned for April Fools this year. I do not see how they will ever be able to top last year.
But I'm still compiling the last version!
A clarification - I just checked out the gentoo page, and they talk about support for Sun Ultra, not SunSparc.
A Sparc5 is different than an Ultra5... I'm going to try it on one of the Ultra5's I have sitting around and see how it goes.
It will be nice to upgrade it from the RedHat 5.2 that it currently is running, all things considered.
I'm very fond of it on my desktops, I have one running 2.6 and one running 2.4 (both gentoo sources) and both are very responsive. I have yet to see another vanilla system that can handle running at 100% load without missing a beat handling the desktop.
:)
It's not as easy as Redhat Mandrake et al, but then doing more complex stuff (custom kernels, odd hardware support etc) is much easier, which is really part of the Linux spirit
On the other hand I think the people running Gentoo on Zauruses are nuts. Gentoo might be good, but man if there was ever a place for Debian that was it!
Beep beep.
Don't give out wrong info, all you have to do is emerge gentoo-dev-sources for a 2.6.X kernel
Setec Astronomy
I'm one of the not-very-skilled, but I found gentoo relatively easy to install from their pre-compiled CD. It's good enough that I don't absolutely need the biggies compiled from scratch. So I don't see that the argument about long compile-times need be so determinative.
Above all, I found documentation items from gentoo specially helpful, because they were written by someone with the skill of remembering and including _all_ of the needed steps -- and this isn't true of all documentation in linux-land. (OT -- another very very good documentation IMO is the GRUB manual.)
So let's hear it for user-helpful gentoo folk and their well-documented distro.
-wb-
To a degree you're correct.. But lots of software is *very* configurable if you build from source. You'd either have to have a shitload of prebuilt binaries or just assume that one size fits all.
Not that I use Gentoo; my desktop is a Slackware system, for which I build everything by hand (and install using a script I wrote to create a package, and incidentally I wrote myself a package manager that I use. Yes I know it seems silly!)
I use FreeBSD for servers and its ports system is veeeery cool (once you start using portupgrade anyway), because things can be tailored to suit your needs. I can build Postfix with a myriad of options and get rid of the cruft I don't need, for example.
For the average desktop user, source builds probably aren't too useful (though for the average desktop user, MacOS X {without that hideous default look} is probably the best).
I tried Gentoo on my notebook, and it seemed that support for PCMCIA and wireless just wasn't all that great. Documentation for such issues was pretty much non-existant at the time.
Has this improved? Any Gentoo want to point me towards portable nirvana?
Jonathan
USE flags. They let you compile in (or out!) support for whatever you want in your system, which is great for custom-tailoring your own sets of packages for whatever tasks.
:)
Otherwise, you could just use the binary packages, and it'd be quite a bit like any other distro.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Torrents please...
Starman97@Gmail.com (bring it on spammers)
Catalyst sounds nice, but what about a tool for making our own initrds so I can, for example, load the module-only driver for my raid card? I think a lot of people have a need for loading third-party drivers in order to boot.
RAID card vendors have a funny definition for "linux support". My Promise SX4 card's SATA interfaces, and not the raid interface, are the only thing 2.6 supports, so you get to stare at 4 separate drives instead of your RAID-5 array; one helpful page suggests that "that's ok because software raid is better anyway"- um, okay. Promise's half-closed-source driver(which is available from 'some guy in germany') won't compile under 2.6, but does under 2.4; however, only as a module, so bringing up the system off the card is impossible without an initrd, even though LILO will work since it uses the BIOS to get the kernel and initrd.
I tried using genkernel, which does build initrds, but I haven't been able to make an initrd that'll boot a -normal- system without tons of module errors, and adding the FasTrak driver module into an already built initrd is a huge pain as well, something else I haven't gotten working. Anyone have a good link to a guide to making initrds and specifically dealing with module headache and describing how the initrd then boots the system off the real_root partition?
'course, i'd also settle for a howto on tricking the kernel into linking the module directly into the kernel, that'd do the same thing...
Please help metamoderate.
Does anybody still care about Gentoo? It is like the ultimate poseur distro. Everyone uses it because they want to be 'leet' and 'kewl' and say 'I run Gentoo and not Windows XP so I am a badass.' Way lame.
As opposed to those who run RHEL or SUSE because their boss gets warm fuzzies from writing subscription checks?
As opposed to those who run Debian because they'd rather argue parlimentary procedure and voting rules than have code that actually works on recent hardware?
As opposed to those orphans still running RHL because dammit, Red Hat == Linux, just like Xerox == photocopying and Jello == flavored gelatin.
And i just finished boot straping and emerging an hour ago.
:)
all well a few more hours wont hurt
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Gentoo has the Live-CD market cornered, with Knoppix remaining as the only serious competitor. :)
In fact, the Hardened-Gentoo CD rocks. Get it, burn it, take it with you wherever you go, you won't be sorry.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Not accurate. You can emerge development-sources to get 2.6.3 (actually, 2.6.4-rc1 now). You don't need to use ~x86. Know it 'cause I've done it.
Advice: on VPS providers
I've got about 50 Compaq Deskpro 4000's that are begging for something to do.
Why not? Support your local electric company I say!
For those with more machines who wish to run gentoo, you can use distcc (distributed c compiler) to speed things up. You can use it from the early stages ;) :)
Gentoo has great documentation on distcc!
Have fun!
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Hi...
What version of XFree86 is shipping with this release of Gentoo? Any statements about the licensing issues some are having with the latest XFree86 release?
"On a more serious note: why do people run Gentoo?"
Did you ever hear Debian users bitch in the early days about how difficult it was to install Mplayer?
emerge kplayer
Done
That's why.
Uh, that's not cool to do that. I did that once, and forgot to take it out, and then I wondered why I suddenly had to upgrade 4 dozen packages (to unstable releases, I soon realized) It's better to specify the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command-line for the single command.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Whoops, silly middle mouse button...
To get the equivalent of MS' "Just download the updates & inform me when they're ready to install:
#!/bin/bash
emerge sync >/dev/null
emerge -uDp world
emerge -uDf world
Cron should take care of mailing you the result.
If there is a bug in the code, then using binaries is most certainly not helping. Not to mention IF the person is FIXING the bugs, the binary does almost NO good.
Now admittedly debian may use non-standard patches to fix some things (what distro doesn't? LFS...maybe) and not have a certain problem, but that should be sent upstream, which it is most likely what colinleroy is doing.
Who cares if you don't like Gentoo or BSD or whatever? Just because someone else likes to run them doesn't make them an idiot. Pretty much any current Linux distro or BSD distro or any similar OS is going to get the same things done for you. They may do things in different ways, but ultimately they have fairly similar results. I'm not trying to devalue any viewpoints or systems here, but honestly there is no point in bitter, angry fighting over superior open source OS's because they are pretty much all way better than Windows.
I happen to like Gentoo, and I run it on some of my machines. But I also run RedHat and Mandrake and Mac OS X and I even have one Windows XP box. I don't particularly care about the alleged optimization in Gentoo, because there is no noticeable difference in speed between any recent distro I have run. What I do care about is the fact that it is highly customizable, fairly easy to use, and frankly pretty cool. The Portage system is a unique adaptation of BSD Ports and the similar Linux counterparts.
I fail to see how Debian is better than Gentoo. They are somewhat similar, and I wouldn't say that either is necessarily better. Of course, with Linux, it ultimately comes down to what is best for you. Either way, there is no way anyone can definitively say one is better. One could go on all day about the goodness of Debian, and I could throw that all out in my mind because I happen to not like how Debian feels and acts. Or I could just go by the simple fact that although initial installation of Gentoo can be more complex than that of Debian, Gentoo worked infinitely better with my hardware from the start. But all that demonstrates is that I like Gentoo better than Debian. It might be the case that I'm the only person that feels that way, and you know what, I would be fine with that.
What I am trying to say here is that we just need to try to be more tolerant here on Slashdot, and ultimately in all areas. Sure, we shouldn't tolerate an OS that is blatantly or hopelessly flawed, but I just don't see that describing Gentoo or any other OS that I have used recently. Go ahead and debate, go ahead and criticize, but realize that you can't really fault someone for their opinions.
I answer your question of why I run Gentoo: because I like it. I respect that you don't like it, if that is the case. I can see how many, if not most people would not like it at all. But I do like it and I am no "zealot." I wouldn't take a bullet for Gentoo, but I'll stick up for it if it is unfairly slammed. I am willing to see the flaws in my chosen distro. Are you?
I am feeling fat and sassy
You can customize any distribution to your heart's content -- that's why it's called Open Source. I remember changing around everything on a Mandrake 8 box some years ago, so that when it booted up the splash screen said something like "Dan's Linux", and the prompts replaced Mandrake Foobar Linux with Dans Foobar Linux (Mandrake names their releases -- forget which foobar it was). Not only is it really easy to make cosmetic changes, if you know what you're doing, it's relatively easy to make other changes to the distro as well.
You missed the point.
How do you merge your fixes into apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ?
You learn enough w/ Slackware, you get pretty recent software in Debian unstable, and the performance optimization seems to be mostly a myth.
Maybe because Gentoo accomplishes both of your first two points? And why not go ahead and throw in optimizations for the arch of the machine... sure it doesn't always help, but if you're compiling from source you might as well.
So maybe if you just want a desktop and don't feel like compiling everything for over a week you can use a different distribution. But I've found Gentoo works well for servers.
In particular for busy servers that are co-located behind > 100MBps of bandwidth for database-backed sites: Every clock cycle helps!
So you don't deny the fact that you are a poseur?
Not at all. I only pretend to maintain the 140 or so Gentoo machines in my department. My users are so in awe of my l33t status that they feel unworthy to ask me to do anything.
The reason we're called "zealots" (yep, I use Gentoo as well) is because everytime a Linux article comes out on /. there are 30 comments that say "What's the big deal, Gentoo already does this" or "All I have to do is emerge -lskfa file", and it's completely irrelevant.
I love the way Gentoo works, and I understand that there are many people who feel the same way I do. But keep it to yourself unless someone is specifically asking for advice on a distro to try. People are sick of hearing us push Gentoo at every freaking opportunity.
Since all the servers are getting hammered pretty hard, this should be mentioned. If you have run
sudo emerge sync
sudo emerge -uD world
in the past few weeks, there's nothing new out there for you. All you'll get is the new packages (like always) and bragging rights to run a "new version." There's not even a new minor 2.4 kernel version - I've been running 2.4.25 since it was released.
So, you do NOT need to sync up now. Especially not while half the slashdot userbase is doing so. You're pounding the living **** out of the servers, and for no good reason. If you must get new everything, whether to brag about running "version 2004" or what have you, su to root and set an at job to do so late tonight. Thank you for making Gentoo usable for people who actually NEED to update.
On a more serious note: why do people run Gentoo? You learn enough w/ Slackware, you get pretty recent software in Debian unstable, and the performance optimization seems to be mostly a myth.
... unpleasant to work with, it expected weird things of my CD-ROM drive and I pulled my hair out when the live-installtion (net-inst) cd didn't have Bash avaible - no tab completion sucks. After having installed it, the X-Server wouldn't work and I gave up, tired and exhausted. Way too much stuff preconfigured in my opinion - not necessarily a bad thing - hey, apt-get seemed quite nice (I mean it).
You must be lucky, because I am the guy you have been looking for to answer all your questions - I run Gentoo on my desktop, Slackware on my Server and recently installed debian-testing. And here is the reason why I like Gentoo the most:
Slackware is a great distro, I could have been the one I liked most. It is barely "extended", everything seems to be where it should be and there are no strange custom configurations/extra control panels/pre-installed programs like on Mandrake or RedHat. But after a while Slackware got pretty tedious, because I had no decent package management (swaret sucks and no central point for mirrors) and the init script system, though I learned a lot through using it, was more than I wanted to handle on a regular basis.
debian-testing. After I found that #debian does have some more helpful users than the ones I encountered last time (Actual quote: "You tried to install unstable? HAHAHAHA"), I found debian hard to install - not because of the lack of an installer but because there is one. It was to some exten
Now Gentoo. I love it - but it is not because I want that so-called CFLAGS Performace Increase(tm). Yes, it's mostly a myth. There are a few apps where it matters, but most of the time it doesn't. But I love portage - I did almost everything on that system myself, except the area I don't like to touch - it has a nice init-script system (think rc-update add apache default). Portage rocks, because compiling from source, while it may be timeconsuming, circumvents a lot of dependency problems, because programs that compile with libX 0.1 will most of the time work with libX 0.2 too, and vice-versa. Also, if I want a new version of a program, no need to wait for a maintainer to make a new release of the package. Most of the time it's just down to renaming a single ebuild-file (i.e., renaming cdrdao-1.1.6.ebuild to cdrdao-1.1.7 ebuild) and portage will try to fetch the appriopriate file from the same server and compile with the same options.
And last but not least: USE flags. I like my emacs without X, thank you, so that's USE="-X" emerge emacs for me (please, no flames from the vi/nano/edit.com crowd)..
I could go on about other things I like, but that mainly sums it up. I hope that obliterates some counter arguments such as "performance myth" and "compile times" because I think those things suck too - and I still like Gentoo.
on a side note, 'emerge -lskfa file' only returns:
e cts/pam_dotfile/
$ sudo emerge -lskfa file
>>> --changelog implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options.
>>> --pretend disables --ask... removing --ask from options.
Searching...
[ Results for search key : file ]
[ Applications found : 46 ]
* app-admin/pam_dotfile
Latest version available: 0.7
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 223 kB
Homepage: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/proj
Description: pam module to allow password-storing in $HOME/dotfiles
License: GPL-2
...plus lots more results, 45 to be exact...
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
Hi,
/usr/(lib|bin|include)/) and take my own kernel .config file or would I have to rebuild a .config file? I assume of course it won't force me to trash my preexisting partitions and data (such as /home, /vol, etc..)
I've been running Mandrake with numerous patches (mainly nForce-related) as well as the 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 kernel from src.
Will gentoo builds upgrade in-place (into
I'd prefer a source-based system that optimizes for SSE, 3DNow, etc..
(and I have 1.4 CDs for Athlon XP and SPARC, just waiting to get the dual-150MHz SPARC in to blow away and drop Linux on.. wh33!!)
Someone finally gets it. It isn't the CFLAGS so much as the USE flags. Don't want evolution to build with PDA support? -pda. Want to make sure that nothing on your system gets built with X support (because this machine doesn't run X): -X. Gnome fanatic that wants to be free of all traces of kde? -kde. vice-versa for the kde fans. That's the level of control you can't get on a "binaries only" distro.
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Crudely Drawn Games
Yep, because of the way gentoo works the only real difference between 2004.0 and 1.4 is possibly how much you have to upgrade afterwards.
;)
So you are correct in thinking that the only thing you have to do in order to "upgrade" to 2004.0 is "emerge sync && emerge -pDu world".
As far as devfs goes, it gets the job done while udev is still VERY much in development. udev is fun to play with if nothing else, though.
Gentoo may be a nice system but for me this was a major showstopper.
Prevent email address forgery. Publish SPF records for y
Gentoo 2004.0 has NOT been released yet, despite what this article says. People, just because the 2004.0 folder exists in the mirrors' archives, does NOT mean that all of a sudden the new version magically appears in the tree.
A few months ago when I was using Gentoo (unstable, admittedly- I don't know about stable) all I had to do was 'emerge udev' and the boot scripts automatically took care of everything.
In short, either devfs or udev worked.
Can Debian or any other distro do a chroot install like Gentoo? I don't really like compiling everything, but it was really nice to be able to drop the tarball in a chroot folder on a running system and do the complete install from there.
Funny, but...
The problem I've had with RPM-based distributions isn't having to specify two RPM's in a circular dependency. It's that when I want to update one program about 3 months after installation, I have to update the 'glibc' RPM, which then means I have to updated practically every RPM.
If your operating system has a year on its name, it's obsolete! :D
I'm wondering, is it worthwhile to abandon my current install and use a 2004.0 install (which currently does not have packages for athlon xp) or to stick with my 1.4 athlon-xp specific install and then upgrade to the latest packages?
Gentoo has been available for the PPC for a while. Not sure if you knew this or were just advocating using Yellowdog (a fine distro in its own right).
The only reason I don't run Gentoo on my PPC is that the default install CD didn't recognize my Adaptec 2940 (? I think that's the card...?) that runs the only hard drive in my Power Tower (no snickering!). The PPC maintainer lamented having kernel panics related to SCSI drivers, so he decided to leave that out of the previous 1.4 release (though it's present in the 1.2 release...).
Go figure.
I've been wondering... How much electric power has been used over the years in compiling Gentoo?
You can with etcat, but you'll need to emerge gentoolkit to get that command. I'm not sure if they added it to the base install yet.
In general you have very few problems with this. Obviously removing glibc, pam, etc would break things and Gentoo doesn't protect you from that, yet. But how often do people start removing libs from a *nix box? I'd put people that do in the same category as those who like to "clean up all those little files in my C drive that are just sitting there."
The more likely scenario is upgrading something fairly important. The big one was the upgrade mysql from 3.x to 4.x which broke postfix, proftpd, php, and half a dozen other things if you have mysql support compiled in. portage doesn't re-emerge all the packages automatically though it does provide tools to help you fix it after you've broken it. Once they finish the reverse dependency which has been in the works for awhile this problem goes away.
kashani
- Why is the ninja... so deadly?
The topic of the official #gentoo channel says:
"Gentoo Linux || ignore slashdot and various other news-sites, 2004.0 is not released"
Topic says "Gentoo Linux || ignore slashdot and various other news-sites, 2004.0 is not released."
What's going on? OSNews and Slashdot both reported it's out. Did someone see the 2004.0 file on FTP and get jumpy? That file's been there for quite a while.
Does it disturb anyone else that:
* The headline is completely wrong--the 2004.0 file everyone is downloading is the EXPERIMENTAL pre-release that's been sitting on FTPs for a while.
* As a result, everyone and their mothers are reporting now that it is out. #gentoo has been fielding people left and right over it. Thanks, Slashdot.
* Hemos mentions it in passing with a "Looks like it's not out yet - stay tuned for more information" at the very bottom of the blurb. Uh, mind changing the headline then that says it's released? A bunch of people are downloading the experimental now.
Thanks for the journalistic integrity, Slashdot--again.
Well duh. :P
I just thought it would be funny to make a Linux distro that turns into a solid rock statue when you look at it the wrong way.
Fair enough, though a simple workaround is to do an "emerge -up world" after an unmerge and see if Gentoo wants you to install that package again.
It got modded back down because you posted. Read the mod guidlines before using your mod points.
Further,
I think many 'geeks' are confused.
You all talk about how important customisation is. Don't you see that the one thing you lack is a base to work from.
We mere mortals can't get on the Linux ladder until we can get hold of the bottom rung
Frankly, the performance gains I've gotten from compiling locally aren't particularly noticable; and the compile times are a pain in the ass. I use Gentoo for two reasons, first and foremost I wanted to learn more about Linux. So I got a distro that forces you to learn without being quite as death-defyingly l33t as Linux From Scratch. And it has excelled in that purpose, I've learned more in the 4 months I've used Gentoo than I did in the 8 months I used other distros. Bloody well had to, which is why I got it.
The second reason I got Gentoo was as a way out of dependancy hell. I find the gentoo ebuilds to be a bit more up to date than the Debian packages usually are. I don't like the compile times, but the days of conflicting RPM's are gone. As are the days of being told to get RPM foo, then being told by foo that I also need bar, then being told by bar that I need quux. I'm quite willing to sacrifice the time needed to compile to get the convenience of not messing with the whole RPM dependancy scene.
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
Good post, I modded you +1, Informative. Oh, wait...
"Gentoo Linux || ignore slashdot and various other news-sites, 2004.0 is not released."
Unfortunately, the file is in the releases directory and is dated today.
Yeah, that's the experimental 2004.0 file that's been there for at least a MONTH. It gets routinely updated.
Next time before you call someone a "troll," look into it first.
Exactly.
I could care less if my computer consumes a lot of time performing a task. It's when I have to consume a lot of time performing a task that annoys me.
And screwing around with RPM's consumes a lot of my time.
With Gentoo, I can issue one or two commands and be done with it.
(don't tell anybody, but Linux is a multitasking operating system, so when I do compiles I can actually be accomplishing other work on that very same computer at the very same time.)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
They went from, IIRC, 1.4 to 2004.0. Now that's version number inflation ;)
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