Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 13th May 2007 01:07 UTC, submitted by Deathspawner
Techgage has taken a hard look at the latest release from Gentoo, particularly its installation process. Although there is a revamped installer, using it proved to be a less than perfect experience: "This installer does not function like the previous ones. Before, the installer would wait until you made changes to the last option before it began installing. Now, everything is installed along the way."
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Both the GUI GTK based and the command line installers are buggy and under powered; CentOS/Redhat still the best in stability arena.
The system that was rejected installed all possible versions of linux and VMS in the world:
1. Fedora/Redhat/CentOS
2. Mandriva
3. Xandros
4. Sun Solaris 11/Nexenta
5. ZetaOS
6. Apple OSX 10.4.7
7. Windows server 2003/XP/Vista
Pentium 4 @ 3.2 GHz
1GB DDR dual channel
D-link Network card
nvidia GF4600ti
Gigabyte Mobo
74GB Raptor HDD @10,000rpm with enterprise reliability
All Hardware were funtional and tested for any instability before installation and just single HDD was used on a single channel SATA and defaults were used during the whole process of installation.
DVD live disk was used and checked against MD5SUM for integrity. Disk burned with nerolinux which uses turbobuffer.