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."

Comments

They must be insane!

[Anonymous Coward]

This LiveCD version is ideal for anyone who wants to try Gentoo before actually making the plunge. On most modern systems the Gentoo Live Source CD only takes a few hours to automatically compile optimized binaries on a vitual RAM disk, after that you're ready to go.

A few hours just to boot a liveCD? No thanks.

gentoo is fun

[Anonymous Coward]

you are all a bunch of fucking pussies... slashdot moderators included
grow some balls, asshats

flamebait

[Anonymous Coward]

"Use Gentoo, because watching shit scroll by for hours makes you a Linux expert overnight!"

etc-update STILL sucks

[SuperBanana]

Call me when etc-update doesn't blow goats.

Anyone who has ever upgraded a package that keeps many files in /etc...say, webmin- knows exactly what I'm talking about. Even if the contents of a file in /etc haven't changed since they were put there by a package, I'm given no indication of this by etc-update, and I have to approve each one of DOZENS of files by hand. There's no simple facility to even say "update all the config files in this directory". This one example gives you an idea of how bad things are overall.

There are some X alternatives, but guess what? I don't run X on my gentoo box, because I don't want to wait for 16 hours for X to compile. Also, the boys who maintain portage have been refusing to allow these third-party tools into the portage tree because "it might confuse users" and the tool (in use and active maintenance for 2 years by a sizable group) isn't "proven".

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. I refuse to recommend gentoo to anyone anymore on this basis; gentoo has not matured in the slightest as a distribution since its first release or two.

Gentoo - no thanks!

[rongage]

After reading the comments about the "3 hours to compile the system in ramdrive" or whatever it was, I am thinking to myself: that would be nice!

Try installing Gentoo on a SunFire V100. More importantly, try installing PHP on said SunFire V100. After 3 DAYS of compiling just about every unnecessary package available (including the entire X Windows tree - the SunFire 100 is a headless box), it finally finished the install of PHP - or at least it thought it finished. It basically didn't work correctly.

I ended up trashing the Gentoo install and installing Debian Sparc on it. At least THAT worked.

Re:Blog-o-riffic!

[Valdrax]

Reread your original post. Please -- as a public service? It's one of the most narcissistic and content-free posts I've seen outside of a blog which is what led to my smart ass comment. The entire post is about you and the torrents you seed under the assumption that someone cares. No one does. Contribute something about the release itself instead of something about how you noticed it and added to your torrents list along with some piece of music that meets your rarified tastes.

Also, no one cares about your uid, your fans list, your penis size, or whatever other superficial measures you use to prop up your self esteem. Only the insecure do, and bragging about it just makes you look bad.