Gentoo Linux 2008

• Author: Aldo
• Filed under: linux
• Date: Jul 8,2008

After a long time in development, Gentoo Linux 2008.0 was finally released and it seems that its developers gave it a funny code name – “It’s got what plants crave” – as Donnie Berkholz announced on the official Gentoo site.

Gentoo’s installer was upgraded and it can only perform networkless installations by using the ebuild tree and packages on the LiveCD. The devs have not released any LiveDVDs yet, but this might change in the future. The most important thing related to Gentoo 2008.0 is the migration to the 2.6.24 Linux kernel that brought with it a lot of fresh drivers and improved hardware support. Read the rest of this entry »