On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:10 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 > "Danilo Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I´m waiting for too. > > > Why? > > From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo > release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware, which is not > supported by the latest release. > > On the other hand I've installed Gentoo from its own CD only once. In > all other cases (including my first install) I've done the installation > in chroot from another, already installed, GNU/Linux distro [1] or from > any bootable GNU/Linux CD [1] which supports the hard disk controllers, > console and the network device. Yet another reason to love Gentoo! ;-) > > In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs > spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage with > new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD images.
Yeah, there's like a billion other boot media that can install Gentoo. I prefer RIPLinux myself for hardware installs. For VMs I have a base image that I copy to a new one, boot into it and then just do an 'emerge --update...' -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
