Slashdot Mirror
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."
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
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.
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
To upgrade from XFree86 to X.org:
# emerge -C xfree
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xorg-x11
XFree86 blocks X.org, not sure if x.org is still masked or not.
So there is no need to reinstall Gentoo.
And XFree86 is the default in 2004.1, don't know about 2004.2.
The IT section color scheme sucks.