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Hi All, |
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I've just whipped up the initial version of our Gentoo Linux 1.0 build |
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tbz2. More advanced users (and developer) may want to use this tbz2 to |
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build their own Gentoo Linux 1.0 systems and help to report bugs and get |
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1.0 ready for release on March 31. You can grab the initial 1.0 build |
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tbz2 from the following URL: |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/build/build-ix86-1.0.tbz2 |
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This new 1.0 tbz2 includes Portage 1.8.9_pre26. Note that our 1.0 ISO |
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isn't available yet, so this file is mainly for those expert Gentoo |
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Linux users who know what they're doing. Also note that this is *not* |
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the official Gentoo Linux 1.0 release, it's just the first rev of our |
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1.0 build image. It does bootstrap correctly. "emerge system" hasn't |
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been tested yet but will probably complete just fine and allow you to |
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set up a full prerelease Gentoo Linux 1.0 system :) The full Gentoo |
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Linux 1.0 release will include the release of new ISOs and a slightly |
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more feature-rich version of Portage. |
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Also, on a somewhat unrelated note: some users were wondering why our |
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2.4.18 kernel didn't have very good desktop performance as compared to |
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our 2.4.7-r5 kernel. The reason is that we tried using the -aa patchset |
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in 2.4.18 for the first time and we found it to be quite slow for |
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interactive Linux use. In addition, our 2.4.18 sources don't include |
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preempt, thus compounding the interactivity problem. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |