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Much improved MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo Linux
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/09/11/Improved-MIPS-and-Alpha-support.html
Published: September 11, 2024 05:00
Over the last years, MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo has been slowing down, mostly due to a lack of volunteers keeping these architectures alive. Alas, not anymore! We’re happy to announce that thanks to renewed volunteer interest both arches have…
KDE Plasma 6 upgrade for stable Gentoo Linux
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/08/31/KDE-Plasma-6-upgrade.html
Published: August 31, 2024 05:00
Exciting news for stable Gentoo users: It’s time for the upgrade to the new “megaversion” of the KDE community desktop environment, KDE Plasma 6! Together with KDE Gear 24.05.2, where now most of the applications have been ported, and KDE Frameworks…
Gentoo Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/08/14/Gentoo-drops-IA-64-support.html
Published: August 14, 2024 05:00
Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc, and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as a vote by the Gentoo Council, Gentoo will discontinue all ia64 profiles and keywords. The primary reason for this…
Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-project.html
Published: April 10, 2024 05:00
As of this March, Gentoo Linux has become an Associated Project of Software in the Public Interest, see also the formal invitation by the Board of Directors of SPI. Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation founded to act as a…
Gentoo x86-64-v3 binary packages available
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/02/04/x86-64-v3.html
Published: February 4, 2024 06:00
End of December 2023 we already made our official announcement of binary Gentoo package hosting. The initial package set for amd64 was and is base-line x86-64, i.e., it should work on any 64bit Intel or AMD machine. Now, we are happy to announce that…
2023 in retrospect & happy new year 2024!
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/01/22/new-year.html
Published: January 22, 2024 06:00
A Happy New Year 2024 to all of you! We hope you enjoyed the fireworks; we tried to contribute to these too with the binary package news just before new year! That’s not the only thing in Gentoo that was new in 2023 though; as in the previous years, let’s…