status update

To those of you who don't frequent our IRC channel and don't know what's
going on, I thought I'd toss an update.  Our installer is basically at
alpha status (we are going to call the version that gets put on the
experimental livecd our alpha release).  Both of the front-ends are
coming together nicely, and both are able to complete installs using a
variety of options.  There are still, obviously, kinks to work out in
areas such as partitioning, and odd bugs that have shown up in our
vmware tests.  

Here's the eye candy.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~codeman/dialog1.png
http://dev.gentoo.org/~codeman/dialog2.png
http://dev.gentoo.org/~codeman/gtkfe1.png
http://agaffney.org/installdone.png

For speed install tests, we have some good news.  On Andrew's 1.3 GHz
athlon with slow ATA drives he completed a test install in 25 minutes
utilizing GRP and stage3.  On my 2 GHz athlon64 and SATA drive, I
completed a test install in under *10 minutes*.  This rivals any other
distro out there, while maintaining the customizability of gentoo.

Ok that's it for the status update.  We are not yet looking for testers
unless they are experienced gentoo users and have boxes to spare.  Look
for more news once the experimental 2005.0 livecd gets released.

-Preston Cody aka. Codeman.