Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 22 May 2008 10:11:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: The install discs based on 2008.0 are still in beta, but the profiles are plain 2008.0. It's really no big deal whether you use an 07 or 08 profile. The other day I was reinstalling on my Thinkpad T61 and got into a deadlock after booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-25 Thread Graham Murray
Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day I was reinstalling on my Thinkpad T61 and got into a deadlock after booting from a 2007.0 minimal CD. I forget which two system packages could not be upgraded without first upgrading the other*, but there was no way out. I solved it by

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: The other day I was reinstalling on my Thinkpad T61 and got into a deadlock after booting from a 2007.0 minimal CD. I forget which two system packages could not be upgraded without first upgrading the other*, but there was no way out. I solved it by

[gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should still use 2007? Sorry for silly question and thanks :) -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:43 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should still use 2007? I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no problems,

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:27:31 AM, Neil wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:43 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should still use 2007? I've been running with

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Neil, thanks for help. You gave me answers on all my questions :) Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:11:41 PM, Neil wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no problems, but then you switched back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no problems, but then you switched back to 2007? No, I'm still running 2008.0. but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so installing