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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."

7 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Re:wireless? by kernel_dan · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you are able to get wireless in Knoppix, then you can download stage1 and the portage snapshot from the internet and install from there. There is no need for the Gentoo LiveCD to install.

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  2. Re:Meaning of Gentoo? by hungrygrue · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is a species of penguin.http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/pengu ins/gentoo.html Specifically, a very fast swimming penguin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin

  3. Screenshots by Se7enLC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Screenshots are here

  4. Re:Discrepancy by dsd · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article text is confusing. There are 2 "releases" at hand.

    1. Gentoo 2005.1 - a normal official release, updated packages and installation media but nothing mind-blowingly new.

    2. An experimental LiveCD which boots into a graphical environment and includes an early version of the upcoming Gentoo Linux Installer.

    The Installer "preview" is not included on the standard 2005.1 media.

  5. Re:Typo? by jtwJGuevara · · Score: 4, Informative

    For instance, the gentoo installation was my first experience manually editing fstab, compiling a kernel, editing various files in /etc by hand, so and so forth. Installing gentoo is not so much a learning experience than it is a "frame of mind" changer. It completely forced me out of using gui configs to the point where I now prefer to go edit files by hand. Of course, you could always go edit files by hand in other distributions as well, but gentoo (moreso the gentoo community and documention) is more supportive of it and explains it much better than other distributions that I've seen. (Disclaimer, I haven't used debian, so I can't speak of its community and documentation).

  6. Re:Discrepancy by glowworm · · Score: 3, Informative

    And when you research the Gentoo site it mentions the Installation tool/live CD is in the experimental fork on the mirrors. Checking there shows the 2005.0 version not the 2005.1 version the article suggests.

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  7. Re:What's the point of a Gentoo livecd? by jtwJGuevara · · Score: 3, Informative
    Isn't the whole idea of Gentoo that you compile everything? Isn't the whole idea of a LiveCD that you have a CD that always works that you can quickly test and use?

    What Gentoo calls a "LiveCD" is mostly different from what every other distribution refers to as a "LiveCD". It's still a true "LiveCD" in that it is a bootable cd that contains a fully working instance of Gentoo on it. However this working instance of Gentoo is a minimal, command line driven (until this release) instance and its purpose is to give you an environment in which you can begin installing Gentoo from scratch to your hard drive.