Archive : : Gentoo 2004.3
Posted By: dholm. on 2004/11/17 6:59:33
After months of hard work the Gentoo Foundation are proud to bring you Gentoo 2004.3. 2004.3 brings you several new features, such a much improved genkernel (for automatically building a working kernel) and cascading profiles. On the Pegasos side of things the LiveCD has become easier to boot, you simply type "boot cd boot/pegasos" in SmartFirmware to get going.
To upgrade an existing installation simply run "rm -f /etc/make.profile; ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-ppc-2004.3 /etc/make.profile"
The complete release information can be found here.
 
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    poundsmack
    Joined: 2003/6/8
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    YAY!!!!!!!!! :-P ;-)
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  • »2004/11/17 7:05
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  • Leo
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    Joined: 2003/8/18
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    Has the release of the Gentoo more to do with MorphOS than the statement of David & Stephan ?!

    I don't understand why this information is still not mentionned on this site while we publish news about a new release of Gentoo...

    Leo.

    [ Edited by Leo On 2004/11/17 11:10 ]
  • »2004/11/17 12:10
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    bbrv
    Joined: 2003/2/14
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    No Leo, it does not. We will also appear on this page shortly:

    http://www.debian.org/partners/

    The fact is MorphOS benefits from this sort of situation. Take David Holm for example, who made the post. He has been a solid supporter and developer for the Pegasos. He was even recently paid for some of his past work. :-o David, has also assisted us in some interesting ways with MorphOS. The more developers there are with machines the more that might get interested in MorphOS. It is a good thing.

    R&B :-)

    P.S. Check the other threads for news and stop speculating!
  • »2004/11/17 12:16
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Chain-Q
    Joined: 2003/10/12
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    Gentoo Rules. I already tried it on PPC (Peg2+Mac) and x86 (AthlonXP2Ghz), and it was really awesome. It's really something Linux should be. Too bad compilations take so much time, so i'm still on Debian... (and MorphOS...:-) ) But nothing is decided yet! :-D
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  • »2004/11/17 15:32
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  • opi
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    Joined: 2003/3/9
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    Nice. Our whole (quite big;) network is working on Gentoo based servers and routers. Anyone can tell me how long it take to compile Gentoo's base on Pegasos II/G4?
    Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski. eFUNZINe.
  • »2004/11/17 15:43
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    dholm
    Joined: 2003/9/1
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    @opi:
    It has been a while since I did a complete install from sources so I couldn't give you an accurate estimate. But we also have binary CDs for people who want to get up and running in a matter of 1-2 hours.
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  • »2004/11/17 18:37
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  • opi
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    opi
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    @DHolm

    I'd quote my friend, Kierzko, who happends to be a sysadmin at my work: ,,Running Gentoo from binary packages render it sensless''. I don't mind to run it that way (but if I'd had to do that, I'd switch to Debian;-) but I was curious about how long it would take (becasue, thanks to Kierzko, I saw quite an amout of Gentoo boxes being installed that way. From PII to dual PIV)
    Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski. eFUNZINe.
  • »2004/11/17 19:20
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Neko
    Joined: 2003/2/24
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    From: Genesi
    It takes just over 24 hours to build Linux, X and KDE from scratch on a G4 :)

    I did it on Monday :)

    Neko
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  • »2004/11/18 15:38
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