Comments on: Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

By: tasaro

tasaro — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:26:00 +0000

2008.0 is now available: http://blog.linode.com/2009/03/20/gentoo-20080/

By: rgk

rgk — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:59:49 +0000

Mike: Also the 2007.0 has the whole expat update which is pretty annoying. I would expect the 2007.0 profile to be pretty outdated soon too (diffucult to update from?).

By: Murat Çorlu

Murat Çorlu — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:17:18 +0000

You are perfect!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:57:58 +0000

@Mike: What you say is true, however it sucks to have to update everything straight away. Also, the upgrade process from 2007.0 requires some manual intervention to upgrade to the latest portage (upgrading portage and bash block each other).

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:37:36 +0000

Thank you. I decided to cause myself some additional headache in transitioning a server from another host running Etch, to a Linode running Lenny. Rather than just using an Etch slice. I am super happy to report, that it was *easier* than my last transition. And every test I run, performance is better out of the box than my last Etch build. Kudos to the Debian team, and you guys for getting the build pushed out so quickly. Cheers.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:19:33 +0000

@Thom: that isn’t needed. Once installed, Gentoo is “stateless” – i.e. a fully updated 2007.0 install is more or less identical to a fully updated 2008.0 install. The yearly releases are just to support installs on the newest hardware (and since linodes run Xen or UML, the hardware setup doesn’t change). So 2008.0 isn’t really needed.

By: Kian

Kian — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:43:17 +0000

Excellent

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:55:58 +0000

Will Gentoo be updated to 2008.0 any time soon too?

By: zjl

zjl — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:05:30 +0000

The Lenny image works very nicely. Thanks alot!

By: Tofu

Tofu — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:59:42 +0000

Thanks