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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…