No problem - its a valid question. I do not think that this was fixed for.2 (at least on releng's side). This was one of those things that slipped through the cracks, which unfortunately is easy to do with a small volunteer team:/
I will make sure that this is fixed next release. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Sorry for the messed up first reply - something in my profile was wonky and it was giving firefox a headache;)
What happened with 2004.1? Well, a lot of things did. We changed project managers, build tools, and procedure. Why? Well, Daniel was beginning to take a diminished role in the project so I had to step up and take over (a lot to learn there), we had no previous release building tool (which is why Daniel and I created Catalyst), and there was no formal procedure in place. So basically,.0 and.1 were both "starting from scratch" since we (releng) had no previous knowledge to build on.
As for your LiveCD problems - a lot of that was in the kernels (which should be fixed).
he largest problem is very clearly the LiveCDs. I have only ever had luck with 2004.0, with 2004.1 either not booting at all or finding new and exciting ways to misuse my very standard hardware. I'm not even going to try using 2004.2's LiveCD. Hell, all you need is any LiveCD or existing distribution, and find the stage* tarball for whatever is the latest and greatest, then pull that down and unpack it.
2004.1 LiveCDs were definitely not good - and we know that. We worked for two months to get a functional 2004.2 LiveCD out the door. Of course, there are still bugs (as with any software), but I can honestly say that it is *much* more functional than any of its 2004.x predecessors.
If you have any questions, or have some bugs to file, drop me a line.
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No problem - its a valid question. I do not think that this was fixed for .2 (at least on releng's side). This was one of those things that slipped through the cracks, which unfortunately is easy to do with a small volunteer team :/
I will make sure that this is fixed next release. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Sorry for the messed up first reply - something in my profile was wonky and it was giving firefox a headache ;)
What happened with 2004.1? Well, a lot of things did. We changed project managers, build tools, and procedure. Why? Well, Daniel was beginning to take a diminished role in the project so I had to step up and take over (a lot to learn there), we had no previous release building tool (which is why Daniel and I created Catalyst), and there was no formal procedure in place. So basically, .0 and .1 were both "starting from scratch" since we (releng) had no previous knowledge to build on.
As for your LiveCD problems - a lot of that was in the kernels (which should be fixed).
Try out http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ - they are always fast and up-to-date ;)
Thanks for your questions!he largest problem is very clearly the LiveCDs. I have only ever had luck with 2004.0, with 2004.1 either not booting at all or finding new and exciting ways to misuse my very standard hardware. I'm not even going to try using 2004.2's LiveCD. Hell, all you need is any LiveCD or existing distribution, and find the stage* tarball for whatever is the latest and greatest, then pull that down and unpack it. 2004.1 LiveCDs were definitely not good - and we know that. We worked for two months to get a functional 2004.2 LiveCD out the door. Of course, there are still bugs (as with any software), but I can honestly say that it is *much* more functional than any of its 2004.x predecessors. If you have any questions, or have some bugs to file, drop me a line.