From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2xXD-0004he-Ay for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:50:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AKn5Jl026592; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:49:05 GMT Received: from charlotte.ctrust.com (gatorvet.com [207.59.126.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AKhsct008901 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:43:54 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.92] (unknown [192.168.100.92]) by charlotte.ctrust.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A13675CE2A for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:50:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42FA6736.2080208@cfrscca.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:44:38 -0400 From: Craig Zeigler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1 References: <1cc2dc8305081006491aa8dd07@mail.gmail.com> <42FA0E1C.6050008@planet.nl> <42FA1371.7090104@internode.on.net> <20050810160002.3758c0b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <42FA1D4C.4030505@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <42FA1D4C.4030505@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac02bfd8-8858-40f5-aae5-c46b622fc327 X-Archives-Hash: 8f6ef38a2cac349910dce278259283b7 Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:47:13 +1000, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: >> >> >> >>> I wish there were Release Notes supplied with the announcement of >>> the new release to satisfy curiosity of what is new/different in this >>> release. >>> >> >> >> Gentoo doesn't really have releases, except for the installation discs, >> so this would be meaningless. Except when a profile is deprecated, and >> 1.4 was the last to do that, your system is whatever was in portage the >> last time you synced and updated. >> >> > From the website: > The Gentoo Foundation is both pleased and proud to announce the much > anticipated release of *Gentoo Linux 2005.1* (Codename: 'El Nino'). > The iso images for the release can be found by visiting the Get > Gentoo! page. > > Fooled me with the word 'release' in that sentence. Its even got a > codename. You know something is a proper release if its got a > codename... :) It is referring to installation iso I guess. Still, > even though it is not a true release in, eh, truer meaning of the word > 'release', whatever it is in Linux distro world, it would still be > nice to have Release Notes with some info on whats new/changed. > > Eugene. > > If the developers bothered to write stuff like that for every package (most of them have changelogs BTW) Gentoo would be like Debian.. years between releases -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list