What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs
When: Saturday, January 3, in a timezone near you
What do you need to bring?
A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client
Your bug. If you don’t have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and [...]
I recently got the chance to talk with Gentoo Catalyst/Genkernel Release Engineering Lead Andrew Gaffney and developer/council member Donnie Berkholz about Gentoo Linux, the challenges it is facing, and the work that is being done by the community — from veteran developers to new users — to overcome them.
OStatic: On the gentoo.org site, it was [...]
The September issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter has been released. In this month’s issue: EAPI-2 approved, Gentoo-Quebec training, learn to use iotop, and more!
In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that will give you up-to-date install media on a regular basis and make much better use of our human resources. We’re looking into automated weekly builds of the minimal CDs and stage tarballs as well as maybe an annual LiveCD release. We will [...]
Due to my busy schedule of the previous week, it actually took me roughly a week to finally get my Gentoo 2008.0 Desktop and configured. This is the first time in over two years that I actually got a fully functional Gentoo system. I even got 3D direct rendering working with nvidia and [...]
What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs
When: Saturday, September 6, in a timezone near you
What do you need to bring?
* A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client
* Your bug. If you don’t have one, we will find [...]
The August issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter has been released. In this month’s issue: PHP4 removal, GSOC interview, new Gentoo-based distributions, and more!
Discuss This!
Heya,
it’s August 8th, which is the date of official discontinuation of any work on php-4 (even security-related) on upstream-side [1] [2].
On gentoo, =dev-lang/php-4* has already been masked for security reasons since Oct 19th 2007, along with everything which depends on it. Removal from our tree was initially announced for Jan 1st 2008, [...]
When the long-awaited Gentoo 2008.0 release finally hit mirrors last month, the two largest groups of users found themselves out of luck: x86 users discovered that their live CD wouldn’t copy the kernel during install, and the AMD64 image wouldn’t fit onto a standard CD-ROM. This was not a great start for a distribution whose [...]
The July issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter has been released. In this month’s issue: 2008.0 release, Gentoo at Peel Fresco Music Lounge and more!
Linux distributions often live and die on the strength of their respective communities. Such is the case with the Gentoo Linux distribution, which canceled its last release in 2007 but has now emerged in 2008 with a new release.
Tanned, rested and ready?
Developers are hopeful that the 2008.0 release will put Gentoo back on track as [...]
For those unfortunate souls who couldn’t boot or burn the LiveCD, we’ve provided the 2008.0-r1 revision bump. It fixes these specific problems:
* Bug #230998: 2008.0 LiveCD for x86/amd64 messes up when copying kernel/initramfs into tmpfs
* Bug #231024: LiveCD AMD64 image does not fit on ordinary 700MB [...]
Elections just ended for the Gentoo council for the next year. Turnout was 57% with 145 developers voting, which is quite excellent. The council, created by GLEP 39 to replace Gentoo’s previous hierarchy, decides on global issues and policies that affect multiple projects. To select council members, Gentoo uses the Condorcet voting method, which [...]
The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named “It’s got what plants
crave,” this release contains numerous new features including an updated
installer [1], improved hardware support, a complete rework of profiles,
and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not
available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the
future. The 2008.0 [...]
Music by: Rob Costlow - Meant to Be (from: http://www.jamendo.com/it/album/888)
Screenshots on our wiki:
- Visual Tour Part 1
- Visual Tour Part 2
Linux Kernel 2.6.25.9 with extended Wireless, Laptop (UMPC, like EeePC), Filesystem (unionfs, aufs, squashfs, ext4, NTFS-3g) support
Really fast boot time (around 30 seconds, depending on your Computer)
Out-Of-The-Box hardware detection, Input [...]
The June issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter has been released. In this month’s issue: LinuxTag
and FliSoL, GSOC interview, Gentoo in space, and more!
SystemRescueCd, a small Gentoo-based live CD designed for hard disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, has been updated to version 1.0.4. What’s new? “Updated the default kernel to Linux 2.6.25.7 with Reiser4fs; fixed problem with Samba due to bad case in the UTF8 character set; fixed the LVM….
Read more at DistroWatch
Sabayon Linux today announced that it will partner with NetCraft Communications, a global provider of computer infrastructure management services and makers of Versiera, Remote System Management and Monitoring Software. As part of this strategic alliance, both companies will leverage their technologies, including Sabayon Entropy to provide broader software distribution methods.
Versiera will now be available on [...]
The May issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter has been released. In this month’s issue: Gentoo Foundation status, Summer of Code interview, network monitoring, and more!
If you’re interested in the legal standing of Gentoo, you can relax because in the past week, the State of New Mexico declared that the Gentoo Foundation Inc has returned to good standing and is free to do business. This accomplishment allows other aspects of the foundation’s work to proceed again. The foundation [...]