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Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-an-ecosystem dept.

safeness writes "Gentoo 2005.1 was released yesterday. Included in its release is an additional experimental LiveCD with the long awaited graphical installer. Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo! Get it here!" And darthcamaro writes "Hard to tell from the change log what's new ... but this story on internetnews.com notes new installation hardware support and WiFi."

19 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Yeah yeah. by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo!

    Indeed! A couple more features and I'll be ready to switch back to Fedora.

    1. Re:Yeah yeah. by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Obviously safeness (the story poster) is a person who subscribes to the philosophy that "less is more".

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    2. Re:Yeah yeah. by empaler · · Score: 2, Funny

      If not in features, then in sense.

  2. This is going to be good... by Dan667 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the Gentoo vs. everything else flamewar begin!

    1. Re:This is going to be good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cheese on toast tastes way better than Gentoo does.

  3. Perhaps its only me... by imsabbel · · Score: 4, Funny

    but somehow, putting a CD with an "experimental Gentoo" Release on it into my computer sounds just as fascinating and fun as open hearth surgery in nanibia or landing a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...

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    1. Re:Perhaps its only me... by RedWizzard · · Score: 4, Funny
      but somehow, putting a CD with an "experimental Gentoo" Release on it into my computer sounds just as fascinating and fun as open hearth surgery in nanibia or landing a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...
      Oh, I don't know. I'm kind of fascinated about just what "open hearth surgey" and "heathshields" are.
    2. Re:Perhaps its only me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That whole sentence was amazing. It makes CmdrTaco look like the National Spelling Bee champion, and not just in nerdiness.

    3. Re:Perhaps its only me... by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 5, Funny
      but somehow, putting a CD with an "experimental Gentoo" Release on it into my computer sounds just as fascinating and fun as open hearth surgery in nanibia or landing a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...

      Are you kidding? The People's Imaginary Republic of Nanibia has some kick ass hearth surgeons. They came by Mom's place yesterday. We thought that fireplace was done for but after a double Chimney bypass it was roaring again we were all making Space Shuttle Heatshield Smores in celebration.

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    4. Re:Perhaps its only me... by br0ck · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heathshields

  4. A Gentoo LiveCD? by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No way in hell am I going to recompile the OS every time I boot up. Do I look like I have that kind of time in my life? /me checks posting history.

    Never mind. Carry on.

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  5. Re:And for those of us with a current gentoo insta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    To upgrade Gentoo, grab the latest -STABLE release from FreeBSD.org and format your disks as UFS2. The rest is left as an excercise for the reader.

  6. One more reason to switch to Gentoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because now installing it is only like pulling teeth, whereas before it was like ripping your own eyeballs out with your fingers?

  7. Like the intro says, "one less reason to switch"! by wsanders · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Included with the distro!" == "Only takes a few hours to compile!"

    Do I have to install it and compile the LiceCD before I can "try and buy"? Doh!

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  8. Re:Poorly Chosen Language by metamatic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps by "nazi-ish firewall" they mean one that burns down your computer and blames it on Communists.

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  9. Re:Discrepancy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the release includes the long-awaited (is it really?)

    Yes. By the time anything in Gentoo's finished compiling it's really really long-awaited.

  10. Re:flamebait by t35t0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    should have been, "Use Gentoo, because shit scrolling by for hours makes your boss think you're doing something productive".

  11. Re:The difference a word makes... by iapetus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah. You clearly haven't tried the graphical installer yet, then. :P

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  12. one less reason by digitalderbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo!

    what they really mean is that the graphical installer is harder to use than the terminal commands.