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Gentoo Linux Announces Gentoo Linux 2004.1

Posted by timothy on from the please-feed-the-docs dept.

Keppy writes "The departure of Daniel Robbins hasn't dented the progress of Gentoo Linux with version 2004.1 being released. ... please support Gentoo by purchasing something from the online store. The Gentoo homepage also has a short message about the future of Gentoo Linux now that Daniel has left. ' Robbat2 writes with an excerpt from the linked announcement: "Please consult our mirror index for download locations and the Gentoo Linux Installation Handbook for detailed installation instructions. Support for Gentoo Linux 2004.1 can be found through our user community by way of the Gentoo Forums, IRC, and various community mailing-lists. Release notes for each architecture can be found linked from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering project page."

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  1. Give it a go. by caluml · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have never tried Gentoo, you should give it a try. Contrary to popular belief, you can have the base installed and running in 15 minutes, and from then you just emerge the packages you want. gentoo-dev-sources, openssh, sysklogd, vixie-cron, at, ntp, whatever.
    The documentation is brilliant, and all the defaults for the packages are sensible, and well thought out.
    When I install a box, I do it at about 4pm. Give it 30 mins to configure, and install a new kernel, reboot, and leave it to emerge -u world ; emerge kde mozilla overnight.
    Couple of things though - emerge ufed, and gentoolkit - ufed is a gui for editting USE flags, and gentoolkit contains qpkg.

    A very brief doc I knocked up is here. It's probably slightly out of date by now, but you get the idea.

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  2. Best Gentoo Utility! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    By far is esearch. "emerge esearch" will get you a suite of utilities that will index the portage tree and make it easier and faster to search the package descriptions. It will also sync and show you any new or updated packages since the last time you synced. A great addition to any Gentoo machine.

  3. Re:One more thing by B1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    After the emerge it will tell you that some files config files need to be looked at, a simple:

    find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'

    Actually, you can also do:

    'etc-update'

    This will walk you through the config files that need to be updated, and let you decide whether you want to accept the changes wholesale, discard the changes, or manually merge them in (it will even show you the differences between old and new).