Gentoo, the sourced based GNU/Linux distro, has released Gentoo 2008.0. It is code named “It’s got what plants crave.”
* Updated installer: The installer now only performs networkless installations using the packages and ebuild tree on the LiveCD. It also contains numerous fixes for extended and logical partitions. * Improved hardware support: Moving to the 2.6.24 kernel added many new drivers for hardware released since the 2007.0 release. * Complete rework of profiles: Restructuring profiles allowed significant cleanup of redundancies, reducing developer maintenance and confusion. The difference for you is that profiles now appear in /usr/portage/profiles/ under default/linux/ instead of default-linux/. See the upgrading guide [2] for more details. * Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs switched to the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary installation using the LiveCD will install Xfce, but you're still free to build GNOME or KDE from source. * No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release out, the release engineering team [3] decided to postpone LiveDVDs because of problems in their generation. They may show up later?if so, we'll let you know.
I bet you it still takes 1337 skills to install. I like the code name. I wonder if I will now be able to get my petunias to stop using Windows.