In celebration of Gentoo’s 10th birthday, the Gentoo engineering team banded together and created the Gentoo 10 LiveDVD of the latest packages for this rolling Linux distribution. Less than a month after releasing Gentoo 10.0, the Gentoo Ten team has released Gentoo 10.1.
The Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD contains enhancements and bug-fixes since the 10.0 release at [...]

Happy Tenth Birthday, Gentoo!
Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new, special edition LiveDVD to celebrate this monumental occasion. The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below.

System packages include: Linux Kernel 2.6.30 (with gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with Speakup 3.1.3, [...]

Woot! Happy Birthday Gentoo. As part of the Birthday party today we announce the winning screenshots.
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. There were 54 entries using 5 different window managers / desktop environments.

The Winners

Quick23t Compiz Fusion
ashtophet Fvwm 2.5.27
Integer Fluxbox

For all the specifications and cool details please visit the winners [...]

Attention Gentoo Community,
In honor of Gentoo’s 10th birthday, we are producing a new livedvd! We need YOU to test it on as many x86 and x86_64 machines as you can and post bugs. Please report your bugs. Feel free to entertain yourself and fellow Gentoo rock stars on our forum.
The livedvd-x86-x86_64 will work [...]

All,
Many of you have, no doubt, learned of the recent loss to the Gentoo community. Known fondly as fmccor, Mr. Ferris E. McCormick’s death was tragic and unexpected. His many contributions to the greater open source community will always be remembered as well as his generous friendship. It is [...]

What: Gentoo 10 Year Anniversary Party
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-birthday
When: Sunday, October 04, 2009, in a timezone near you
Introduction:
Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community [...]

The Gentoo embedded team would like to announce that we will be automatically building and releasing stages for ARM and SuperH/SH. We hope these stages will help out people interested in developing embedded linux applications.
On the ARM side, we are currently releasing stages for the following CHOSTs:

arm-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in progress)
armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in [...]

The Cuban government has launched its own version of Gentoo Linux, dubbed “Nova.” The distribution was developed in response to embargo hassles in updating and acquiring Windows, as well as concerns over U.S. government spying via the OS, says an industry report.
Developed by the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI), Nova was launched at the [...]

As you can see, your favorite website now displays more information, reflecting the activity that’s been going on behind the scenes all along. Thanks to popular demand, the latest blog posts from planet.gentoo.org, packages from packages.gentoo.org and [...]

The long and arduous trek that the Gentopia Project has seen has finally come to an end. From it’s inception the project faced stiff push back from Gentoo and it’s developer base. In fact, the project was originally named “Project Utopia” mirroring Robert Love’s and Joe Shaw’s vision of a Linux desktop that simply worked. [...]

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!
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