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Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> On Saturday 10 May 2008, davecode@××××××××××.net wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo |
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>> home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo |
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>> is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little |
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>> motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. |
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> I think you misunderstand how Gentoo works. |
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> First of all, there's no such thing as "the latest Gentoo version". What |
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> you do have is the current state of the portage tree and that is |
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> constantly changing. |
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> All that "2008" is, is a workable snapshot of a basic system that you |
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> use to install Gentoo. The next thing you do is update the tree to the |
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> latest state, and update the system by recompiling everything that has |
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> changed since your CD image was built. |
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> There's only one reason to wait for the 2008 CD, and that is if you have |
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> hardware that cannot boot from existing installers due to driver |
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> issues. So this is a bootstrap problem, not a latest version problem. |
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> For example, this very notebook I'm using now is 7 months old, and I |
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> used a 2005 installer CD to install - it just happened to be the only |
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> one I conveniently had handy at the time. |
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> Gentoo is not Ubuntu, don't try to think of it in Ubuntu terms. Don't |
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> claim that "this confuses new users", because those new users are |
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> mistaken. Shoehorning Gentoo into something where the latest installer |
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> is of vital importance is never going to work and all attempts to do so |
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> will fail, in much the same way that awaiting "linux kernel 2.6 SP9" is |
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> also never going to work out |
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>> So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we |
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>> test. |
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> That's a false assumption. You or your users are looking at a blue sky |
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> and asking why it isn't green with pink dots because those colours are |
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> nice. |
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> Doesn't work that way. |
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>> Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new |
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>> reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected |
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>> final release date"? Counting lines of code or something? |
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>> Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present |
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>> expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. |
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> OK, so this is what you'd like. Unfortunately you can't get it. What |
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> could be done though is a nice big clear link to an article that |
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> explains how Gentoo works and why OS versioning is not relevant. |
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> Perhaps a chart laying out the latest stale and unstable versions of |
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> major packages, categorized by arch would suit your needs. |
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> Distrowatch's list of packages provided would be a good place to start. |
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That was what I meant to say! Thanks for this more epic explanation! |