Gentoo 2004.0

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aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:27 pm

Well, they uploaded the files to the servers, but no announcement and no GWN...

I'm already seing articles showing up about the release but nothing from Gentoo themselves.

What gives

Oh, and another thing.

The Mods don't get enough apreciation, so here's a big hug to you guys for doing an excelent job. Keep up the good work.

aplesch · Post by **aplesch** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:30 pm

Have mirrors only hardened stages on 2004.0 ?
see thread in installation forum,

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:46 pm

What I saw:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... &start=275

But the topic is for testers, so I thought this was a bit OOT after all.

But yeah, they are selling the CD's already...

Frodg · Post by **Frodg** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:13 pm

Of course you don't need the CDs if you already have gentoo installed

update everything and Bob's your near relative..............

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:40 pm

I know, but the releases is interesting nonetheless, since they bring new tools, support for new hardware etc...

Amoeba · Post by **Amoeba** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:17 am

2004.0 will probably make gentoo easier to install. Nothing more. If you have gentoo already, there is no need to get it, since it isnt an upgrade.

Goalie_Ca · Post by **Goalie_Ca** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:22 am

It's on slashdot. And of course only 1% of the posts even refer to gentoo 2004.0.

DarkBlackFox · Post by **DarkBlackFox** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:38 am

I just checked out the store and they say they're shipping out orders of 2004.0, so I can only conclude it's out, whether or not it's hit the mirrors yet.

pranyi · Post by **pranyi** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:58 am

Does 2004.0 use 2.6. kernel for booting?

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:03 pm

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:46 pm

better late than never i guess...

d3c3it · Post by **d3c3it** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:48 pm

hows this release work this time round to you download the universial cd for the base cd ?

Cossins · Post by **Cossins** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:24 pm

aridhol wrote:I know, but the releases is interesting nonetheless, since they bring new tools, support for new hardware etc...

No they aren't and they don't... Unless you mean for the install procedure.

- Simon

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:19 pm

Cossins wrote:
aridhol wrote:I know, but the releases is interesting nonetheless, since they bring new tools, support for new hardware etc...
No they aren't and they don't... Unless you mean for the install procedure.

- Simon

Yes, that is exacly what I mean.
If you check out the install-forum you will see questions about sata and so on. I would believe that they have added more support for that.

Spawn of Lovechild · Post by **Spawn of Lovechild** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:45 pm

The kernel on this one throws a nice oops when running grub as well (grub 0.94-r1 bootstrapped to ~x86 here).
I had to boot a handy Linux CD to run it to complete the installation (in this case all I had was Arch Linux 0.5 but it worked)
Genkernel still hasn't provided a bootable kernel using the guide - it complains about not being able to mount root on the ramdisk (for the initrd image I presume).

But I do dig the new bootsplash, and for once iputils compiled without a problem.

All in all it was a rather painfree install.