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GLPA 20030101-1 |
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Gentoo Linux Public Announcement |
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Gentoo 1.4 Release Candidate 2 debuts today. |
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Gentoo Linux <http://www.gentoo.org> is proud to announce the second release |
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candidate for the upcoming 1.4 version of Gentoo Linux. New in 1.4_rc2 is the |
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Gentoo Reference Platform: a suite of binary tarballs that allow for faster |
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initial installation. Currently X, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, and OpenOffice,org are |
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available as binary installations for x86 architectures (optimised for i586, |
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i686, pentium3, athlon, athlon-xp, and athlon-mp) and ppc architectures (optimised |
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for G3 and G4), with sparc (ultrasparc optimisation) and alpha to follow soon. |
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The Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP) is slated to be able to provide a fast |
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installation of Gentoo Linux to a completely usable graphical environment. The |
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binary packages provided have been compiled with safe optimisations for each |
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architecture and safe USE settings to allow a maximum interoperability with |
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future packages that users might like to install. |
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The CD based install method has been greatly enhanced since previous releases of |
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Gentoo Linux. The LiveCD for installation now works with a much larger variety of |
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hardware (autodetected), and provides a completely working Gentoo Linux system |
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which can be used for install (a stage 1 installation tarball is provided on the |
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CD images) and for rescue purposes. The LiveCD debuts for the ppc architectures |
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in this release. The Sparc/Ultrasparc platform will see a LiveCD within weeks. |
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The next release of Gentoo Linux in two weeks will be either a final release |
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or the third Release Candidate for Gentoo 1.4, contingent upon final standards |
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being met. The GRP for this release (RC2) is very preliminary, and will be |
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much enhanced for the next release, with a larger selection of binary packages |
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for each architecture. |
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We encourage users and prospective users to try out Gentoo Linux 1.4 Release |
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Candidate 2, available from http://www.gentoo.org The future upgrades to next |
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release will be seamless to all current users of Gentoo 1.4. Updated installation documentation for this release is available at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml |
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As always, we invite and encourage problems to be reported via our bug tracking |
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system at http://cvs.gentoo.org |
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Many thanks to all the users and developers of Gentoo Linux for bringing about |
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the fruition of Gentoo Linux Release Candidate 2. |
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Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant |
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