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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-text/uchmviewer Feature rich chm file viewer, based on Qt
dev-python/uv-build PEP517 uv build backend
dev-java/asm-jdk-bridge A Bridge to Translate ASM From and to The OpenJDK Class File API
dev-cpp/glaze Extremely fast, in memory, JSON and interface library for modern C++
dev-cpp/ut2-glaze A stripped down fork of boost-ext ut2

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Intel/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Logcheck/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
VDPAU/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Udevil/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Vpnc/hu started by Torontál-vármegye