Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:10 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300
> "Danilo Marcelo" <danilo.marcelo@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > I´m waiting for too.
>
>
> Why?
>
> From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo
> release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware, which is not
> supported by the latest release.
>
> On the other hand I've installed Gentoo from its own CD only once. In
> all other cases (including my first install) I've done the installation
> in chroot from another, already installed, GNU/Linux distro [1] or from
> any bootable GNU/Linux CD [1] which supports the hard disk controllers,
> console and the network device. Yet another reason to love Gentoo! ;-)
>
> In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs
> spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage with
> new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD images.

Yeah, there's like a billion other boot media that can install Gentoo. I
prefer RIPLinux myself for hardware installs.  For VMs I have a base
image that I copy to a new one, boot into it and then just do an 'emerge
--update...'


-a

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