2007.1? Or perhaps 2008.0.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

miso5,

You may use any liveCD that works with your hardware to install Gentoo. The 2007.0 Gentoo liveCD was made about April 2007. If you were to install the binaries from that, your install would be 9 months old. When you do an emerge --sync to get the current portage tree, then build packages, such as the kernel, you get todays kernel.

This means that while the Gentoo 2007.0 liveCD will not work for you, your installed Gentoo will be fine, as it will be as up to date as your last

miso5 · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Sheffield

I'll try, I've never been tring to install one distribution from another...
But its time to start :-)

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d2_racing · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:59 am Post subject:

11010010110 · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 43

Well today is the last day to release 2007.1.

To all you who have '2007.1' in ur signature - where did you get x86 / i686 2007.1 ? I didnt find it in the mirrors

Or does just gentoo that emerged -e system after date > * count as 2007.1 ?

Naib · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

don't get hung up on releases when dealing with Gentoo
Gentoo is updated every time you run an emerge --sync && emerge world

EVEN if they did release a CD now you would be more uptodate then the CD/tarball

all the profile does is sets the minimum package version for some packages and defaults
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Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

True, but in this case there is more: there are just too many C2D systems which are not supported by 2007.0. People can't install Gentoo using the normal methods. That sucks. Other than that, versions don't matter.
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Naib · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

Naib

nixnut · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

merged above six posts here.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8967

There have been many problems with the JMicron controller used on various C2D mainboards. And such things are really annoying for beginners - we shouldn't have to tell them to use another LiveCD for installing Gentoo, it's just embarrassing. We all know that there aren't such things as 'Gentoo releases', but LiveCDs should always be up to date to support a majority of systems.

Naib · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject:

poly_poly-man · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

Thargor

Naib

d2_racing

Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

Yeah, Daniel Robbins is Gentoo, he has the spirit of Gentoo running all on himself. He is making a good job investing time on creating new stages, I really appreciate that effort. Myself I'm not worried of new releases, just new stage tarballs, since that makes your life easier if you ever have to reinstall.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

Kensai,

Gentoo was started by drobbins but it was out of his individual control (even direction) a long time before he left the project.

Gentoo is whatever the Gentoo community makes it. Community means everyone who contributes and uses it.
drobbins is one of many members of the Gentoo community. I'm not belittling his contribution, only casting it into perspective - he has the advantage of knowing Gentoo better than most of us.

To make the point, there is no "us" and "them" in the Gentoo community, only "we".
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Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

Hehe, I knew this would make somebody mad. LOL. I meant in the sense that he is the man, becuase of his contribution with the stages. I know all about the history of drobbins, how he got broke because of Gentoo how he worked for MS and how he led MS to do some crazy things never before seen in favor of Linux, though very little to notice, and how he is now working for E*trade a company known to run Gentoo Linux.

But drobbins is the man right now, sorry about the he is Gentoo, he is the man was what I meant.

PS: I love your signature, I fall on the second group, seriously.
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d2_racing · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

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WizNut · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Earth

Well, I just took a look over at the releng project page and what I see looks kinda good. Apparently the next release is going to be 2007.1 and it looks like there's still a chance that it might be released in November.

Naib · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

November 2007....not November 2008