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
:-) :-)
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