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Gentoo 2008.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the upgrades dept.

An anonymous reader notes that the Gentoo 2008.0 final release is available. From the announcement: "Code-named 'It's got what plants crave,' this release contains numerous new features including an updated installer, improved hardware support, a complete rework of profiles, and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the future. The 2008.0 release also includes updated versions of many packages already available in your ebuild tree."

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  1. Re:Anyone tried other source based distros? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used sourcemage a few years back. (Left because i got tired of waiting for shit to compile, hurr hurr.) I found it really nice, and absolutely LOVED the bash-script based package management. Compared to Gentoo, it's also really good at fixing itself when things get borked.
      If I had more disk space, I'd probably give it a go again. It was a really nice distro.

      - mantar

  2. Re:Finally. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct procedure is:
    # Update local package repository image
    emerge --sync
    # Select new profile (Adjust to your architecture / preferred sub-profile)
    eselect profile default/linux/x86/2008.0
    # Update to latest default USE flags (which is generally all that changes with profile updates)
    emerge --update --deep --newuse world
    # Update config files with tool of your choice

    The rest is completely useless. Even if you did want to completely re-emerge the entire system, there's little point in the 2 "emerge -e system" (if you're a ricer, you may choose to do one of them - since system is included in world, the second is completely pointless)