Gentoo Linux Announces Gentoo Linux 2004.1

Keppy writes "The departure of Daniel Robbins hasn't dented the progress of Gentoo Linux with version 2004.1 being released. ... please support Gentoo by purchasing something from the online store. The Gentoo homepage also has a short message about the future of Gentoo Linux now that Daniel has left. ' Robbat2 writes with an excerpt from the linked announcement: "Please consult our mirror index for download locations and the Gentoo Linux Installation Handbook for detailed installation instructions. Support for Gentoo Linux 2004.1 can be found through our user community by way of the Gentoo Forums, IRC, and various community mailing-lists. Release notes for each architecture can be found linked from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering project page."

Awww crap!

[twenty-exty-six]

After about a month and a half I just finished compiling 2004.0.

In related news,

[Anonymous Coward]

Debian has announced their expected release of Sarge to coincide with the next ice age.

Re:Gentoo is one of the best linux distribs, and h

[Anonymous Coward]

That, folks, is karma whoring at it's best!

Re:In related news,

[deutschemonte]

In other news, environmental scientists claim they have proof that Microsoft is to blame for global warming.

Re:Gentoo is one of the best linux distribs, and h

[42forty-two42]

root@gentoo ~# emerge newlines

HTH.

Re:In related news,

[Stile 65]

Which is still before Longhorn will come out. :)

Re:Gentoo is one of the best linux distribs, and h

[irix]

On topic when replying to this guy and still funny after all this time ... I've got the Karma to burn on the troll mods :)

Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic

Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...

"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."

"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."

"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."

"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."

"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."

"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."

"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."

"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"

Re:The Gentoo "geek-factor"

[Dan Ost]

I know a couple of folks who use Plan 9. In fact, one of them is planning on
moving to Inferno because Plan 9 is getting too mainstream.

Re:Gentoo is one of the best linux distribs, and h

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you actually interested in getting help with your camera, or just in providing a running commentary on the state of Linux and its users?

Karma Whoring

[DroopyStonx]

Since everyone is getting away with posting obvious shit like:

"Update your system with 'emerge sync' and then 'emerge -DUu world'"

and

"Don't forget to run etc-update after you upgrade; that way you can merge any changes to the config files in /etc. (hence the name "etc-update")"

I figured I'd take part in some karma whoring of my own: GENTOO IS A LINUX DISTRO!!! omg!!!!!! I bet you DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!

Now give me my fucking karma.

Re:In related news,

[beforewisdom]

So competition with Gentoo has forced them to speed up?

( no offense, use debian, love debian )

Steve