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The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named "It's got what plants |
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crave," this release contains numerous new features including an updated |
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installer [1], improved hardware support, a complete rework of profiles, |
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and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not |
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available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the |
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future. The 2008.0 release also includes updated versions of many |
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packages already available in your ebuild tree. |
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* Updated installer: The installer now only performs networkless |
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installations using the packages and ebuild tree on the LiveCD. It also |
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contains numerous fixes for extended and logical partitions. |
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* Improved hardware support: Moving to the 2.6.24 kernel added many new |
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drivers for hardware released since the 2007.0 release. |
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* Complete rework of profiles: Restructuring profiles allowed |
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significant cleanup of redundancies, reducing developer maintenance and |
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confusion. The difference for you is that profiles now appear in |
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/usr/portage/profiles/ under default/linux/ instead of default-linux/. |
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See the upgrading guide [2] for more details. |
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* Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs |
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switched to the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary |
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installation using the LiveCD will install Xfce, but you're still free |
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to build GNOME or KDE from source. |
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* No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release |
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out, the release engineering team [3] decided to postpone LiveDVDs |
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because of problems in their generation. They may show up later—if so, |
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we'll let you know. |
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* Updated packages: Highlights of the 2008.0 release include Portage |
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2.1.4.4 [4], a 2.6.24 kernel, Xfce 4.4.2, gcc 4.1.2 and glibc 2.6.1. |
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A big thanks goes out to our release engineering team members [3] for |
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their hard work over many months to turn 2008.0 into reality. |
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Get the new release from our "Get Gentoo!" page [5]. |
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Discuss this [6]! |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ |
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2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml |
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3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ |
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4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/ |
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5. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml |
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6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-699099.html |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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