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-2012.1.i... ? There is no such concept in Gentoo. After you install any image and run
Am 07-03-2014 06:37, schrieb Royce Lv: 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.