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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. None of your business by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is none of your business how I decide to spend my day or what I decide to do with my computer. If I feel like compiling my Linux distro from scratch, I'll do it. Take your environmentalist rants elsewhere.

  2. Re:Global Warming - why?? by **loki969** · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what is the benefit of having thousands of geeks compiling the same code over and over, when you can download 1 binary distribution and be done? If you sum up the manhours of all this compilation, the power consumed by countless hard drives and processors churning away, whats the point?

    Speed. Now a binary distro can install things quickly but not run them very quickly. If you have a nice dual-core CPU setup and 1 GB of RAM the binary distros will serve you well, but if you have an aging desktop such a a low-end Pentium 4, or a high-end Pentium III, with RAM maxed out at 512 MB, Gentoo will run faster then even Xubuntu. Now, it might take a week to get everything installed, but once it is installed you have the fastest system you can get on that hardware.

    It's not about speed, at least from my point of view. - It is all about configurability. - Almost no users ends up with the same system as the other one.

    Since one is in full control and there are hundreds of decisions to make it is very unlikely that any user ends up with the same system as another one.

  3. Do not want! by Ant+P. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been waiting for this release, but after one of the higher-access Gentoo devs was caught using dev servers to attack a competing distro (and resorting to name-calling afterwards) I'm not sure if I can trust them any more.