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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."

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  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.

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

    Let the Gentoo vs. everything else flamewar begin!

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Screenshots by Se7enLC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Screenshots are here

  6. 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.

  7. No ReiserFS by Danuvius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    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/faq .xml#reiser
    "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.

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