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Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released
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."
It's only the installer that's experimental. The actual stuff that installs on your computer will only be expiremental if you go with the "~arch" branch.
I hear you learn lots about Linux that way.
No, you learn lots about following instructions that way. Of course, it's still useful knowledge that a lot of people could benefit from gaining.
stop trolling and start use dispatch-conf (included in portage).
IIRC, most of the alternatives that don't use X are simple scripts (like dispatch-conf and etc-update are anyways), so why make a whole package for something u can just slip into ~/bin (or w/e is in your $PATH) ?
I posted about how much gentoo config handling sucks in the last slashdot story about gentoo, and I'll keep doing so until they do something to fix it.
Thanks for doing your part.
Gentoo's "default filesystem" (the one that's recommended for the root partition in the installation manual) is not supported. No ReiserFS with the graphical installer.
q .xml#reiser
For a large portion of Gentoo users this makes the graphical installer USELESS.
And why is there no ReiserFS support?
According to the, presumably 12 year old, FAQ writer for the project:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/fa
"Because reiserfs == teh suck...and libparted doesn't support it very well."
Based on past experience, I suspect behind this decision a juvenile programmer with personal dislike for Hans Reiser due to some flamewars.
Urgh... what a pity. I hope eventually work will be taken over by people with some sense. In the meantime I'll continue being very happy with my manual gentoo installation and recommend any GUI-installation-dependent users to head on to SuSE.
Akarsz Magyar Gentoo fórumot? Akkor
Well, that's not entirely true. You could say the same thing about the apprentice system, which obviously does work. Sure you don't become a linux 1337 hax0r over night, but, having done a gentoo install, I could see what I had done wrong with other linux systems. As you do the install, you see how things fit together, and getting from the fresh-install to working-desktop stage is better still, in terms of learning. Because X.org wasn't automatically configured, I learned how to do it by the gentoo guide, so when something did screw up with it, I could go back in and fix it. Was this the only way to get this information? No. Would a gentoo install teach you much if you're already a knowledgeable linux/UNIX user? Again, no. For those of us not in that category, the gentoo install proves to be educational, and it ends up with a system that is customized to your liking.