Re: [gentoo-dev] Good place to start?

[320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:

> Thanks - I have since found the installation page (quite obvious -
> especially since I found the developers page first).  I have also noticed
> the rc3 has disappeared - soon to be replaced.
>
> I am wondering about the release criteria.  What criteria must be met to
> make the 1.0 release, and what is missing as of yet?

The release criterias for rc4 are no more new fetures, just fixes an stability
improvements.
And we want to have a automatic recursive package installation.

Things we do not have yet and that should be in 1.0 final:

- config-file/kernel-module/initrd management
- automated recursive compilation and updating.
- Bettter devfs support (currently only optional)
- A gui for installation and package-management

achim~


>  I am curious because
> of the development nature of reiserfs, there are still numerous bugs -
> especially related to nfs support.  I believe grub is alpha as well, but I
> have not heard that it is anything but release quality in nature.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@veldy.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
> To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Good place to start?
>
> >
> > The intelligence behind building the entire distribution does reside in
> Portage;
> > however, we do have an installation CD ISO image that has pre-built binary
> > packages.  You can download this CD and install Gentoo Linux directly.  We
> > have instructions (that I'm about to update) posted on the web site.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
> > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
> > Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
>
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