From the official note: The Gentoo Linux 1.4 release candidate 1 is gcc 3.2-based, supporting optimizations for Pentium III, Pentium 4, Athlon (Classic through XP,) K6 (Classic through K6-3,) PowerPC G3 and PowerPC G4 with AltiVec. Also included is a new 2.4.19-based high-peformance kernel with IBM EVMS (enterprise volume management) support, countless enhancements to Portage and a new “live” bootable CD that boots directly into a runtime version of Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1. Includes KDE 3.0.3, KDE 3.1-beta1, KOffice 1.2, OpenOffice 1.0.1, GNOME 2.0.1 (2.0.2 on the way) and Mozilla 1.0 (1.1 available for testing). The “rc1” release includes bootable CD ISOs for x86, stage tarballs for PPC and Sparc64 (ISOs on their way) and new Alpha Processor stage1 support. Update: Unreal Tournament 2003 Gentoo CD! Read on.Daniel sent us also this information:
Unreal Tournament 2003 Gentoo LiveCD is a bootable CD with Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo + LAN, sound and Gentoo Linux install/rescue.
Epic Games’ much-anticipated Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo is now available on a self-booting Gentoo Linux-based LiveCD, allowing you to play the Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo using any modern PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater graphics card and a CD-ROM drive. Full networking, complete OSS sound support plus additional Creative Soundblaster Live! and Audigy support included, allowing for the full gaming experience
including LAN/Internet play, EAX environmental audio and of course 3D accelerated OpenGL graphics. The CD also serves as a fully-functional Gentoo Linux installation CD.
Would someone kindly explain where these x86 isos besides the livecd ones are? Or should I use these to install?
Surely I don’t want to burn the CD and reinstall everything from beginning since I am already a gentoo user from 1.2. How could I ’emerge’ to 1.4 RC-1 using portage? Please point me the proper instructions, I can not find it anywhere..
Thanks a lot….
If I can emerge to 1.4 based on my 1.2, how long it is going to take? I don’t want to take 10 days…
No one loves my souped up SparcStation-20 but me!!!
Is there an OS out there that supports multiple CPUs, is free to use for non-commercial use, and doesn’t spit out “Unimplemented System Call” thousands of times on the console (on Sparc32)?
Yes, I know Solaris 8 (download edition) qualifies… but where can I download it? Solaris 9 (download edition) only supports 1 cpu.
Also Debian (stable) qualifies… but its too out of date for me. But maybe I’m too picky…
I don’t think you can emerge it. By reading the forums at forum.gentoo.org (haven’t try it yet – busy today), you need to download, burn and boot with the 1.2 bootable ISO CD and then ‘wget’ the appropriate 1.4-RC1 .tbz for your CPU and then re-install using the new .tbz file. Back up your /home/* before you do that elsewhere.
http://www.gentoo.org/~carpaski/system_update/
I don’t know about downloading, but it looks like Sun is still selling Solaris 8 media for $75. You can probably also pick up (legit?) media kits on ebay for cheap.
How usable is the SMP -current code for NetBSD/SPARC and FreeBSD/SPARC these days?
Yours truly,
Jeffrey Boulier
Hi everyone,
Our new liveCD’s are intended to be used for installing Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1. The “old style” CD is no longer available, as the liveCD does everything it did and more. We’ll clarify this on our site, but remember that “livecd” also equals “install CD”
i’d look at NetBSD for it…IIRC 1.6 was just recently released…so it should be somewhat up to date…also, you could always try debian unstable which is supposed to be more stable than Gentoo but less stable than something like debian stable or slackware or redhat
anyways, that’s what i would do
-bytes256
I was going to get an ITX system and was thinking of putting gentoo on it does it have opitmatations for that to? and if not how do I opitmise the C3 chip in the ITX system?
Come on Gentoo, be the first to support APCI in all it’s glory so I don’t have to fool with FreeBSD or WinXP on my laptop! (Sony Vaio U1).
I’m downloading iso right now. LiveCD is a very good idea, because at last i cat try gentoo without spending hours (days?) on installation (not to mention reading tons of manuals etc.. because i’m almost total newbie
THX.
Also Debian (stable) qualifies… but its too out of date for me. But maybe I’m too picky…
The “stable” version of Debian is a highly tested distro that is made for production machines like servers, where glitches caused by conflicts of packages is frown upon.
Try Sarge, or if you are really adventurous, Sid.
i have 1.4rc1 since sunday runing on my athlon pc. the very bad thing is, that i could not successfull install the thing, until i took 512mb OUT of my pc. now i only have 1GB of memory and i was able to compile everything i need.
another thing wich is anoying: they took out the sgi xfs filesystem.
they had it once in their gentoo-sources kernel, but after one of their maintainers had a crash and data loss with xfs, the xfs fs is not anymore in their kernel. however… just because one person had a problem with xfs, does not mean that everyone will have trouble with it! btw: this is the price you pay when you are tweaking with “agcount” and other xfs specific flags. and just because of that, you don’t need to get xfs out of the gentoo-kernel!! if i and other would act the same way, then we all would not give gentoo a chance! then i had more then once a crash and more then once a messed up system with gentoo. but i did not give up and continued to work with it!
cheers
SteveB
You should just dig informations a little bit before posting such comments:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15314
I’ve burned cd, rebootet comp and booted from cd. I’ve run “pci-setup”, then “x-setup”. X gives me fatal error after i chose options. I’ve tried many combinations of resolution and colors and AGP. After last “OK” screen is black for a second or so (probably x tries to make what i wanted) and then it goes back to text mode with fatal error info. It writes something about “no screens found”.
I have ECS K7s5A mobo, all built in thingies off. Creative GeForce 2 MX 32 DDR (on AGP of course). 512 DDR RAM. Athlon Thunderbird 1,4 GB. And LG 795ft plus Flatron monitor (if it matters).
One more thing: i had the same problem when i tried FreeBSD. It installed ok, but x-setup was saying “no screens found”
On the other hand i was doing something wrong probably then. But here, with liveCD, i’ve done what they wrote to do…
Is this a Gentoo support board or a news site?
I think for people having specific problems with Gentoo there are better (better in the sense of more possible help) places to discuss such things.
http://forums.gentoo.org/
http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user
http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-newbies
IRC channel #gentoo on openprojects.net
mmm…live CD…small, great way to infiltrate an organization’s computers and play around
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! =D
Looks like xfs has just being merged into the 2.5 development kernel
XFS: “AutoVersion”
Date: Fri Sep 13 14:59:34 PDT 2002
Workarea: chuckle.americas.sgi.com:/build/lxfs-cvs/2.5.x-xfs-VER
Author: cattelan
The following file(s) were checked into:
bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.5.x-xfs
Modid: 2.5.x-xfs:slinx:127397a
linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_version.h – 1.2
merge xfs up to 2.5.35
Date: Mon Sep 16 09:10:25 PDT 2002
Workarea: jen.americas.sgi.com:/src/lord/xfs-merge.2.5
Author: lord
The following file(s) were checked into:
bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.5.x-xfs
Modid: 2.5.x-xfs:slinx:127481a
linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_lrw.c – 1.166
linux/fs/xfs/support/time.h – 1.7
linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_aops.c – 1.5
http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/ChangeSet@-1d?nav=index.html
The download edition is the same code as the one you buy, AFAIK.
There is no restriction, at least there was none with 8.
D
You’re right, Solaris 8 download edition supported multiple CPUs, but not Solaris 9 download edition.
And *BSD (including NetBSD) does not support multi-processors on Sparc32, and probably never will.
i know it’s not relevant here, but my mozilla can’t even display gentoo.org properly i wonder why………, and even worse when i go to desktop faq, anyone has same prob ?
no. not at all. in fact i can view it just fine with mozilla 9.1 too.
Um, the link is dead now…..mirror?
The link works fine.
Sorry but Ibiblio is maxx0red. Do the other gentoo mirrors have the iso?
“No one loves my souped up SparcStation-20 but me!!!
Is there an OS out there that supports multiple CPUs, is free to use for non-commercial use, and doesn’t spit out “Unimplemented System Call” thousands of times on the console (on Sparc32)? Yes, I know Solaris 8 (download edition) qualifies… but where can I download it? Solaris 9 (download edition) only supports 1 cpu. Also Debian (stable) qualifies… but its too out of date for me. But maybe I’m too picky…”
What about NetBSD (www.netbsd.org) ? Ever looked at that one ?
-fredo