Gento 2006.1 Released

qwijibow

Sep 9 2006, 07:02 AM

Gentoo ( Gento.org ) have released the latest install cd, 2006.1

Just out of curiocity, i downloaded the install disk.

Very impressive, after booting the install Disk, you are left with a fully working desktop, complete with games, web browsers, email, everything.

And on the desktop, two install icons, 'Graphical Install' and 'Console Install'

You Still need an advanced level of knolegde to install gento well, just because its a graphical installer, doesnt mean it wont ask you questions about GCC compile flags etc etc., but having a uully working distro as you install is very impressive.

I would surgest all you gentoo fans take a look.

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qwijibow

Sep 10 2006, 10:56 AM

OOps... The Command Line Installer program failed part way through the install.
(got as far as compiling pmount)

and i had to complete the rest of the install the old way, manually.

I tuhink i will be stiking with the old manual way from now on. not because its easyer, but because i like added control it gives.

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ELTan

Sep 10 2006, 12:35 PM

wow, cool.... it look like a great software, anybody try it? can share some experience with me? like it stablity, software available?
if this really work, i plan to install it in one of my pc...
any other combatible software available?

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Giniu

Sep 10 2006, 01:14 PM

QUOTE(ELTan @ Sep 10 2006, 02:35 PM)

well portage is big software base, and if something isn't inside, then you can still build it from source - so all Linux apps are ok with gentoo in same way as any other distro... Gentoo is good distro, anyway I still prefer SourceMage - it has many neat features and is easier to install and maintain... some performance measures made on SourceMage computers showed that it is faster than Gentoo and same for Gentoo on Gentoo computers so they are closely same... you can check differences there: http://www.sourcemage.org/Gentoo. I like the sorcery in this distro... you cast (build) spells (packages), you can update them with dependencies, you can dispell (uninstall) them and they are placed in kind of graveyard from where you can reinstall them - it will ask you for every optional dependency - but still alows you to set default flags for package like USE flags... also they have "Social Contract" similar to Debians one... there is quick example of instalation from their page:

QUOTE

# cast mutt
Computing previously installed dependencies...
mutt preparing environment...
Build which version?
(0) stable
(1) devel
(2) cvs
Which one do you want? [0] 1
mutt running configuration...
Apply the compressed_folders patch? [n] n
Apply the edit_threads patch? [n] y
Apply the trash_folder patch? [n] y
Apply the purge_message patch? [n] y
Apply the maildir_header_cache patch? [n] n
Apply the sidebar patch? [n] n
Apply the attachment_counting patch? [n] y
Apply the isalias patch? [n] y
Apply the deepif patch? [n] y
Apply the date_conditional patch? [n] y
Apply the current_shortcut patch? [n] y
Rebuild documentation affected by patches? (requires linuxdoc-tools) [y] y
Enable POP support? [y] n
Enable IMAP support? [y] n
Enable the header cache? [n] n
mutt checking dependencies...
mutt optionally requires some MAIL-TRANSPORT-AGENT (to send mail).
(0) [none]
(1) courier
(2) esmtp
(3) exim
(4) msmtp
(5) nbsmtp
(6) netqmail (installed)
(7) postfix
(8) qwikmail
(9) sendmail
Which one do you want? [0] 6

anyone there used both? I use SourceMage mainly and Slackware... haven't chance to try Gentoo... what do you think Qwijibow about SourceMage?

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