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Gentoo 2004.2 Released
brghntr writes "The gentoo guys (and girls) have released 2004.2 for the x86, AMD64, HPPA, and SPARC. You can read the information page here or go straight to the mirrors."
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PPC wasn't mentioned, but it seems it's on its way too.
FP?
If your regularly do an emerge -uD world then your system is pretty much up to date.
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
now you can get most of the software in binary form too (using emerge).
Not that it matters, gentoo bashers will say anything to sound smart.
Whut?
As stated at the bottom of the release notes, all you have to do is emerge and you will get the latest versions of everything, that's the good thing about Gentoo - you DON'T have to reinstall everytime they bring out a new release, the only people who will need to reinstall are those still on v1.2
There are some configuration-type things that don't get updated by an 'emerge -uD world'. Sure, all of your packages are kept up to date, but for instance, Gentoo has moved from XFree86 to X.org. That change won't be made until you move from 1.4 to 2004.x. I once saw directions on how to make the switch, but lost track before I could do anything about it. So for the moment, I'm '-uD world' like you.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.
..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.
This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.
The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.
There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
When I last checked there weren't links to the torrents on the announcement and now I can't get to the site and see if they've changed that. So just to be sure here's the link.
why do linux distributions typically have PowerPC releases always up to a generation behind
This one's easy. The majority of people running PPC machines at home are using OS X. It's up to date, it's supported, and it's a very good desktop machine.
How many people at home who have an Alpha machine want to run Digital's unix on the desktop? The same goes for HP/PA Risc
Or Solaris for that matter. The effort to get a Solaris machine up to snuff for desktop use, with all patches, is phenomenal... I know, because I have a work machine running Solaris, with gnome, firebird, evolution, vim, gcc, cvs, ssh, etc., and it took me three full days of installation and patches to get this set up. I have another sparc machine at home that I installed gentoo on, completely from scratch (stage 1) that took less time than that to get going. And most of that time I left it to do it's own thing...
I think it's just a question of what the enthusiasts on a particular hardware base want to do with their machine. If you're unhappy with that, you are, of course, always welcome to join one of the teams to help them get it out sooner...
gentoo has ebuild for both apache 2.0 and apache 1.3
Installation document comes with Gentoo installation CD as well as text mode www-browser.
Extra computer is not needed although it might be helpful.
http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/gentoo/x86/200 4.2/
I had to dig on the forums to find this, but still.
You don't need two computers to do this. The Gentoo liveCD comes with - if they haven't removed them - installation instructions and a cli browser(lynx), which is suitable for browsing the forums.
If you don't like cli you could always use another Linux distro or Knoppix LiveCD to install Gentoo...
Here you go :-)
PHP runs fine with Apache 2.0, just enable prefork to make it work the same as Apache 1.3.x with child daemons. Hell, if you are running fairly limited libraries in PHP you can get away without.
More info on Prefork at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/prefork.html
There's probably some USE flag you can set to force a prefork build in Gentoo.
Still, i'm one of those odd people that prefer to roll their own Apache install.
If the servers are out, try the torrents.
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
Do what I did, just use one of those live cds like Knoppix or Morphix or whatever, you can install gentoo from there. Of course, it required that you either have a 2nd cd-rom drive to put the gentoo disc in while you're still running Knoppix.
why would you have to trash 2004.1? Just install 2004.1. Once finished, log on as root and type 'emerge sync' followed by 'emerge -u world'. Then your system will be totally up to date, as in you will then be running 2004.2. The version numbers for the LiveCD's are just to get a new system *fairly* up-to-date before downloading any updates. This keeps people from having to download tons of files to update a version that's too old.
Having a smoking section in a public restaurant is like having a peeing section in a public swimming pool.
Linux - How to Install Gentoo via Floppies and Network Only Using Fedora Floppies
Hope this eases some download woes for someone...
# rm
# ln -s
where x86 should be replaced with your current architecture: alpha, amd64, arm, ppc, sparc, or x86, although not all of those architectures have 2004.2 profiles
Of added interest appears to be the
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
As I said before, the concept of a fluid distro are lost on some people.
I installed Gentoo about a year ago and have never downloaded a new "version" as I keep up with my emerge on a regular basis.
The only thing I can figure is that they are installing on fresh systems or want a live CD. Then it would make sense. But from the people I've talked to, they don't realize they already have the latest version if they "emerge sync && emerge -uDv world"
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
You can use the "quickpkg" tool (it's part of Portage) to generate binary packages, then have your friend use "emerge -k".
Like another poster said, it would be hard to get strangers to trust your binary packages. But for a network of friends like a Linux user group, your workplace, or a school lab, building binary Gentoo packages would be really cool.