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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

media-video/ffmpeg-compat Complete solution to record/convert/stream audio and video
net-wireless/rtl-sdr-blog Modified Osmocom drivers with enhancements for RTL-SDR Blog V3 and V4 units
sec-keys/openpgp-keys-dnkl OpenPGP keys used by dnkl to sign releases & commits
dev-python/zmq-anyio Asynchronous API for ZMQ using AnyIO
dev-python/anyioutils Utility classes and functions for AnyIO

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Virt-install started by Egberts
Device file/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Filesystem in Userspace/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Broadcom Bluetooth/hu started by Torontál-vármegye
Wine/hu started by Torontál-vármegye