Gentoo to get a REAL installer

Michael Hipp Michael
Mon Nov 29 12:51:04 PST 2004


Jerry McBride wrote:

> On Monday 29 November 2004 09:17 am, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>This sea change could make it possible for a lot of us to now take
>>Gentoo seriously as an alternative to mainstream binary distros.
>>
>>From: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20041129
>>
>>"The latest issue of Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, as well as this earlier
>>story on ZDNet provide some interesting information about the upcoming
>>release of Gentoo Linux, scheduled for the first quarter of 2005. Among
>>them, the users (and potential users) of the most popular source-based
>>distribution will be pleased to learn that Gentoo will finally default
>>to kernel 2.6 on all architectures, the Gentoo live CD will serve as a
>>full desktop operating system (not just an installation CD), and it
>>will, for the first time, include an automated graphical installer."
>>
> 
> 
> DAMN! I love it JUST THE WAY IT IS....

Maybe they'll produce a Gentoo Classic version for folks who like taking 
30 hours to do an install. <g>

The rest of us weenies can study up on how to click 'Next>'.

Michael


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