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Bootable Gentoo QCOW2 disk images - ready for the cloud! (Feb 20, 2025)

Larry the Qcow2 We are very happy to announce new official downloads on our website and our mirrors: Gentoo for amd64 (x86-64) and arm64 (aarch64), as immediately bootable disk images in qemu’s QCOW2 format! The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console (“no root pw”), or with network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init running on boot (“cloud-init”). Enjoy, and read on for more!

2024 in retrospect & happy new year 2025! (Jan 5, 2025)

Gentoo Fireworks Happy New Year 2025! Once again, a lot has happened over the past months, in Gentoo and otherwise. Our fireworks were a bit early this year with the stabilization of GCC 14 in November, after a huge amount of preparations and bug fixing via the Modern C initiative. A lot of other programming language ecosystems also saw significant improvements. As always here we’re going to revisit all the exciting news from our favourite Linux distribution.

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

app-eselect/eselect-guile GNU Guile eselect module
kde-plasma/aurorae Themeable window decoration for KWin
llvm-runtimes/flang-rt LLVM's Fortran runtime
media-sound/amarok Advanced audio player based on KDE Frameworks
media-libs/zint Barcode encoding library supporting over 50 symbologies

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

DKMS started by Nowa
WezTerm started by Alxhr0
Syslinux/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
EFI stub/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Installkernel/hu started by Torontál-vármegye