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Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shiny-things dept.

linuxbeta writes "Hot on the heels of Gentoo's announcement of their 2006.0 release, OSDir has published a Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour which give us a walk-through of installing Gentoo with the first ever Gentoo Linux LiveCD."

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  1. Extra packages showing bad form? by rkcallaghan · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Extra Packages page shows some really bad form. Calling the user "you hoser"? I know Gentoo is a hobbyists distro but c'mon, should at least maintain a level of professionalism.

    ~Rebecca

    1. Re:Extra packages showing bad form? by BobNET · · Score: 3, Funny
      Calling the user "you hoser"? I know Gentoo is a hobbyists distro but c'mon, should at least maintain a level of professionalism.

      Take off, eh!

    2. Re:Extra packages showing bad form? by iknowrobocop · · Score: 2, Funny

      and i was certain that this was another example of how advanced Gentoo was!

      -Mr. John A. Hoser

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    3. Re:Extra packages showing bad form? by temojen · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Do not question it, or we shalltaunt you a second time.

  2. /ob funroll-loops by Theatetus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just to beat the h8ers to the punch:

    • Gentoo lets stupid people compile their own kernels. Stupid people ask us questions on IRC. We forget that we were stupid once too so Gentoo is stupid.
    • Smarter people use Debian. RMS is really really smart. Proof? He uses Debian. QED.
    • Gentoo lets you set compiler optimizations. Compiler optimizations won't make things 5x as fast. So they are stupid.
    • Gentoo has USE flags. USE flags are for packages that can't even decide what parts they should have. Forget them.
    • Gentoo's default editor is nano. Nano is for pussies. Proof? My college roommate used nano and he was a pussy.
    • Gentoo makes you compile stuff. Who's got time for that? There's no way to get binary packages from portage so it sucks.
    • Gentoo's mascot is a cow. Cows are herbivores. Herbivores are stupid. Proof? Pamela Anderson is a herbivore.
    • Penguins and gnus can beat up cows. So can whatever mascot slackware has.
    • Gentoo doesn't use xinetd. Xinetd is the only way to let your serverz connect to the interweb. I need my servers to connect to the interweb so I don't want Gentoo.
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    All's true that is mistrusted
  3. link to the Release Engineering page for 2006.0 by toby · · Score: 2, Informative
    2006.0.

    Any non-trivial instructions for migrating from current profile should appear here, according to the upgrading guide.

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    you had me at #!
  4. Re:Oh my God by avenj · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or, you know, actually do a manual install. Which I'd assume would be what you want if you're looking to configure a kernel and whatnot straight off the bat. Or cd /usr/src and build a kernel after you've installed. Whatever floats your boat. Either way, installer's meant for quick installs, configuring and compiling a kernel's hardly quick

  5. Re: Distros by dch24 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Isn't it amazing how even a specialized distribution like Gentoo can offend Debian fans, not to mention others... Since we all paid nothing for these things, the least we can do is try a few more out and get some balanced opinions before flaming away.

    If you've never installed Debian or Gentoo or Red Hat and don't want to waste a CD-R (or take the time to burn it, or whatever...) most of the distributions (including Knoppix) can be run "as if" from a CD but actually from the hard drive.

    Marc Herbert's Windows Install Page details how to install a new distro using Windows without a CD. He also explains that the instructions are meant to be used for any OS, for example, trying Gentoo on a Fedora Core system. It's worth looking at!

    Think of how much more you'll know after you've installed all the distros out there!