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> > Once again, there should be some problem with my English. It is |
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> > official Gentoo release policy to have minimal, live, and platform |
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> > releases in sync. Posting a new image to forums is not that tightly |
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> > related to policies. |
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> No it's not, and I never suggested it was. As an Open Source project, |
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> ANYONE can build a new, unofficial image that supports brand new |
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> hardware. They don't need to wait for the full releng cycle of testing on |
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> all packages. |
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Perhaps. |
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But as I discovered late last year, being able to build an image that |
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supports your hardware is kinda impossible when you can't even install |
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Gentoo onto it in the first place using the images available. |
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Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in 2006.1? |
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-Drew |
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