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Interview with Milan Kazarka
Milan is from Foresight Media s.r.o, who produce interactive Touch Tables, that run Gentoo Linux. One of the products are a low cost alternative to Microsoft's Surface. Be sure to check out an overview of their products. Milan, thank you very much for your time. My first question is this:Who is Milan and how did you get started with Gentoo? I guess I'm a product de...

Gentoo at SCALE 10x
SCALE 10x is almost here, and Gentoo will be there! Southern California's premier open-source software event is just around the corner, running from Friday, January 20 through Sunday, January 22. Several Gentoo developers will be there; it will be even bigger than previous years. We'll be showing off some nifty devices running Gentoo, and we'll be giving out installation media. Whether you're...

Gentoo Linux releases 12.0 LiveDVD
Figure 1.1: Heating your boxes since 1999 Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the availability of a new LiveDVD to celebrate the continued collaboration between Gentoo users and developers. The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below. A special thanks to the Gentoo Infrastructure Team. Their hard work behind the scenes provide the resources, services and tec...

Announcing the latest installment in Gentoo greatness, the official Gentoo Wiki!
We are glad to announce that the official Gentoo Wiki opens its doors today. As you would expect it from a herd of proper Gentoo developers, we have spent quite some time bikeshedding about various things concerning the wiki, including the color. It seems we have finally reached a verdict, much to everyone's surprise it will be purple! Now, without further ado, we'd like to welcome you to our...

2011 Gentoo Screenshot Contest Results
Long live Gentoo! As the quantity and quality of this year's entries will attest, Gentoo is alive, well, and taking no prisoners! Special thanks to likewhoa for putting together the Screenshot content management system.The Winners1. whtwtr's Compiz desktop2. ifenslave's Kde desktop3. Berr's Xfce desktop4. ramonovski's Scrotwm desktop5. slashbeast's Openbox desktop For all the specifications an...

Gentoo Linux releases 11.2 LiveDVD
"The future is now" edition Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the availability of a new LiveDVD to celebrate the continued collaboration between Gentoo users and developers. The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below. System packages include: Linux kernel 3.0 (with Gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with Speakup, Bash 4.2, GLIBC 2.13-r2, GCC 4.5...

Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2011
After the success of the 2010 Screenshot Contest the Contest Team is doing it again! Gentoo Users, Developers, and Staffers are encouraged to submit their sweetest screenshots. This year likewhoa went all out and put together a custom cms for us to use for the contest. Please head over to the 2011 Contest Page for all of the details. You can visit this forum post for comments and suggestio...

Larry the Cow Embraces Freedom
After years of "Larry the Cow" being identified with Gentoo and the Gentoo community, Larry has been traced to his creator, Ethan Dunham of Fonthead Design Inc.. Larry is a part of a bigger collection of Font Heads. Following discussions with Ethan Dunham, involving Sebastian Pipping from the Gentoo Artwork Project and Roy Bamford, on behalf of the Gentoo Foundation, Fonthead Design Inc....

OpenRC and baselayout 2 will be stabilized on May 8
OpenRC, the replacement for Gentoo's current services system (known as baselayout), will be stabilized on May 8. It replaces the previous bash-only rc system in baselayout with an rc system that has a C-based core and uses only POSIX-compliant shell code. You will see an update for sys-apps/baselayout to 2.x and a new package, sys-apps/openrc. It is recommended that you perform this update as ...

Qt 4.7 and KDE 4.6 going stable, finally!
After a lot of bug-wrangling both by upstream and by our Qt and KDE teams, we now feel confident that Qt 4.7.2 and KDE 4.6.2 are ready for stabilization. If you are a stable tree user (amd64, ppc, x86), the upgrade from current Qt 4.6.3 and KDE 4.4.5 will arrive at your machine soon, with lots of new features. (The KDEPIM applications such as kmail, kontact, or akregator will stay at trusty ver...