From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYz1c-0005gv-W0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:35:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8C7EE045A; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost02.isp.att.net (fmailhost02.isp.att.net [207.115.11.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FEAE045A for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.215.56.234] (host-209-215-56-234.jan.bellsouth.net[209.215.56.234]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc02) with ESMTP id <20080311073548H0200ahpeae>; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:35:49 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [209.215.56.234] Message-ID: <47D63653.8080000@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:35:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080209 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo References: <47D6333E.9020003@ihug.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <47D6333E.9020003@ihug.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d991c6a-cd01-4f84-9f78-d1d5264260a7 X-Archives-Hash: ff7bd08575e495034e6c417347d5451f Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu > but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level > of customization that I can do with it. > However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 > release (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? There wasn't a 2007.1 release because there was so much changes to so many packages and things just never lined up stability wise so there could be one. That's my understanding of it anyway. It just seems there was always something blocking progress. I have read that 2008 should be out real soon. A couple weeks I think. May want to wait and install from that depending on your situation. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080123_releng_beta.xml > There also appears to have been a bit of turmoil in the Gentoo > 'management;' - has this affected the long term viability of running > Gentoo? The Foundation had some "legal" issues for a bit, long bit, which has been discussed on here and the forums at length but is either corrected now or in the process. I think it is corrected now but not 100% sure of that. Gentoo is very much alive and kicking tho. The tree and distro itself is humming right along. I see updates every day to packages so that is no worry. As far as I know, the tree has not slowed down at all. Just needed some lawyers involved on the foundation end. < pukes at the idea > > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ > advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? > Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) > No clue on this one. I'm not building a 64 bit rig until I know I can use it and it is supported 100%. Since you already got one, may as well. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list