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Gentoo 2004.2 Released

Posted by michael on from the gentlemen,-start-your-compilers dept.

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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  1. First ill be done compiling next week post! by slash-tard · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its funny because its true.

  2. is there a linux version? by slubberdegullion · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is there a linux version of this software?

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp

  4. Obligatory Gentoo joke by leathered · · Score: -1, Troll

    2004.2 will finish compiling just in time for the release of 2004.3.

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    For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
  5. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and this is where I say something usefull

    HA!

  6. Can you emerge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my paenis into your aenus?

  7. dumb bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    After it's done compiling you'll be right where I am after installing any normal Linux distro. Well except for the fact that you may have forgotten to compile in support for your cd burner or somesuch in which case you'll have to recompile.

    Isn't running linux punishment enough? Why run a distro that makes you do everything by hand?

    1. Re:dumb bastards by chegosaurus · · Score: -1, Troll

      > After it's done compiling you'll be right where I am after installing any normal Linux distro.

      Wrong. You won't have the leeter-than-thou bragging rights, and the privilege of talking crap on IRC about how much snappier fluxbox is since you added -fthis_switch_does_nothing to your CFLAGS.

  8. Re:Actually, Gentoo releases don't really matter.. by josh+crawley · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is why Gentoo will never make any money and will fail as a company; there's clearly no way for them to control access to updates and charge subscriptions like Red Hat Network Update and Mandrake Club. It is clear that Gentoo will very shortly be purchased by Microsoft, placed in a canvas bag, tied to a cinder block and tossed into the river.

  9. Gentoo Zealot Translator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic

    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."
    "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 .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."

    "...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 .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)."

    "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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