Am 07-03-2014 06:37, schrieb Royce Lv:
I would prefer to provide users with stable release rather than
latest
build ones.
So what about
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/12.1/livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-2012....
?
There is no such concept in Gentoo. After you install any image and run
the equivalent of "yum update", the system behaves exactly the same
regardless of which image it was installed from. From inside its own
package manager, you can choose whether you want stable or unstable
releases for some (or all) packages. The weekly releases are like
checkpoints with updated packages so you do not need to download a lot
of updates after installing them (like if you install that 2012 image
and download all updated packages released in the last 15 months).
That URL you provided above is marked as a special release ("End of
World Edition", because they were making fun of that Mayan theory about
the end of the world in December 2012...). It is not, in any way, more
stable/friendlier/anything than the weekly releases. It was just a
celebration/marketing thing.