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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] Gentoo Linux 1.0 released
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:23:06
Message-Id: 1017616746.6158.29.camel@inventor.gentoo.org
1 Hi everyone,
2
3 Gentoo Linux 1.0 has been released! The 1.0 release features the
4 following nifty new things:
5
6 Portage 1.8.9:
7 10-20x speed improvement in dependency calculations
8 New more flexible USE system
9 Powerful new dynamic world profiles supporting package "pinning"
10 emerge world == "emerge system" the way *you* want it.
11 Tons of bug fixes
12 Lots of new features, tweaks and refinements
13
14 Core system updates
15 glibc 2.2.5
16 new shadow/pam packages
17 new more flexible autoconf packages
18 updates to many core packages, including SGI XFS-related tools
19
20 New kernel:
21 "2.4.19": 2.4.19-pre2-ac4-XFS
22 Includes up-to-the-minute XFS support,
23 O(1) scheduler,
24 Rik van Riel's reverse-mapping patch,
25 Andre Hedrick's IDE updates,
26 Andrew Morton's disk IO fixes,
27 and the usual Alan Cox goodness
28
29 Relevant links:
30
31 Install documentation:
32
33 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html
34
35 New Portage Manual (in progress):
36
37 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-manual.html
38
39 Note that we currently have an i686+ "gentoo linux system in a tarball"
40 (stage3) for much speedier installs.
41
42 Enjoy!
43
44 --
45 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
46 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
47 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.