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Gentoo Linux News  -
7 days and 13 hours ago
What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs
When: Saturday, January 3, in a timezone near you
What do you need to bring?
- A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client
- Your bug. If you don't have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and your
skills
- Your favorite editor
- A way to test that your bug is fixed (asking people counts!)
- You don't need to know C, C++, or bash
What's a bug? Gentoo's way of tracking change requests. A change request can be
anything from "I've found a typo in foo" to "I've built this really useful program called bar but
there's no ebuild for it." Bugs have various levels of helpfulness, from identifying the
existence of a problem to localizing the problem to providing the patch to fix it.
There are bugs in documentation such as man pages as well as ebuilds and the source code that
Gentoo distributes. These bugs are problem reports. Bugs for things Gentoo doesn't do yet but you
think should be done are feature requests. Bugday is more about fixing problems than
adding features, but you won't be turned away if you want help with a new feature.
Want to know more about Bugday? It's held on the first Saturday of every month.
It's an opportunity for everyone to contribute to making Gentoo better, and eventually you might
even become a Gentoo developer. See the Bugday project page for more details.
Bugday is about community spirit. Gentoo is a
community—there is no "me" and "them", there is only "we," so instead of
lobbying for "them" to fix your particular bug, work together to fix it! Bugday is an opportunity
to get help to help yourself.
If you've been wanting to get involved but weren't sure how, Bugday is a great way for you to see
what goes on in making a distribution and get involved in Gentoo.
Discuss this!
Roy Bamford contributed the draft for this announcement.
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Gentoo Linux News -
19 days and 4 hours ago
The time has come! Our release engineers have been refining their automated builds of the minimal
CD and stage3 tarballs, and the first builds are uploaded to our mirrors. Select your
favorite mirror and navigate to the
/experimental/ directory. Under the x86, amd64, ia64, alpha, and sparc64 architectures,
the autobuilds directory contains stages. So far, minimal CD images are only available for x86
and amd64.
We're still working to add automated builds for ppc, ppc64 and hppa as well as CD images for
architectures lacking them. We built the stage3 tarballs from the latest stable
packages. Fresh builds will show up every week, although sometimes we might skip a week
if build problems crop up.
Because these builds are automated, they have not been rigorously tested as the old
releases. Occasionally, you might run into problems. If that happens, just try a file
from a different week.
Please try out these new builds and leave your feedback on the forums. As always, please
report any bugs on Bugzilla.
Happy holidays!
Discuss this!
Ben de Groot contributed the draft for this announcement.
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 3 hours ago
In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that
will give you up-to-date install media on a regular basis and make much better use of our human
resources. We're looking into automated weekly builds of the minimal CDs and
stage tarballs as well as maybe an annual LiveCD release. We will keep you updated as we decide
on the details of this new approach.
Consequently, we're canceling the 2008.1 release. The release engineering team
has to reconsider its priorities—we overstretched our human resources during
the prolonged 2008.0 release process. This caused too much stress for our release engineers and
multiple postponements of the release.
You can help! The release
engineering team is looking for new volunteers because it perpetually has a severe lack of
manpower. We are particularly looking for people with a good grasp of ebuild development and the
ability to debug/fix problems that crop up during building and testing of the stage tarballs and
ISO images. We will update the staffing needs page with more details.
Discuss this!
Ben de Groot contributed the draft for this announcement.
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 4 hours ago
What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs
When: Saturday, September 6, in a timezone near you
What do you need to bring?
- A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client
- Your bug. If you don't have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and your
skills
- Your favorite editor
- A way to test that your bug is fixed (asking people counts!)
- You don't need to know C, C++, or bash
What's a bug? Gentoo's way of tracking change requests. A change request can be
anything from "I've found a typo in foo" to "I've built this really useful program called bar but
there's no ebuild for it." Bugs have various levels of helpfulness, from identifying the
existence of a problem to localizing the problem to providing the patch to fix it.
There are bugs in documentation such as man pages as well as ebuilds and the source code that
Gentoo distributes. These bugs are problem reports. Bugs for things Gentoo doesn't do yet but you
think should be done are feature requests. Bugday is more about fixing problems than
adding features, but you won't be turned away if you want help with a new feature.
Want to know more about Bugday? It's held on the first Saturday of every month.
It's an opportunity for everyone to contribute to making Gentoo better, and eventually you might
even become a Gentoo developer. See the Bugday project page for more details.
Bugday is about community spirit. Gentoo is a
community—there is no "me" and "them", there is only "we," so instead of
lobbying for "them" to fix your particular bug, work together to fix it! Bugday is an opportunity
to get help to help yourself.
If you've been wanting to get involved but weren't sure how, Bugday is a great way for you to see
what goes on in making a distribution and get involved in Gentoo.
Discuss this!
Roy Bamford contributed the draft for this announcement.
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 7 hours ago
For those unfortunate souls who couldn't boot or burn the LiveCD, we've provided the
2008.0-r1 revision bump. It fixes these specific problems:
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Bug #230998:
2008.0 LiveCD for x86/amd64 messes up when copying kernel/initramfs into tmpfs
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Bug #231024:
LiveCD AMD64 image does not fit on ordinary 700MB CD
We apologize if you encountered one of these problems. We fixed them as quickly as we could after
hearing about them. Get the new 2008.0-r1 revision from our "Get Gentoo!" page.
Discuss this!
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 8 hours ago
The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named "It's got what plants crave," this
release contains numerous new features including an updated installer, improved hardware support, a
complete rework of profiles, and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not
available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the future. The 2008.0 release
also includes updated versions of many packages already available in your ebuild tree.
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Updated installer: The installer now only performs networkless installations
using the packages and ebuild tree on the LiveCD. It also contains numerous fixes for extended
and logical partitions.
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Improved hardware support: Moving to the 2.6.24 kernel added many new drivers
for hardware released since the 2007.0 release.
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Complete rework of profiles: Restructuring profiles allowed significant
cleanup of redundancies, reducing developer maintenance and confusion. The difference for you
is that profiles now appear in /usr/portage/profiles/ under default/linux/ instead of
default-linux/. See the upgrading
guide for more details.
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Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs switched to
the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary installation using the LiveCD will
install Xfce, but you're still free to build GNOME or KDE from source.
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No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release out, the
release engineering team decided to
postpone LiveDVDs because of problems in their generation. They may show up
later—if so, we'll let you know.
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Updated packages: Highlights of the 2008.0 release include Portage 2.1.4.4, a 2.6.24 kernel, Xfce 4.4.2, gcc
4.1.2 and glibc 2.6.1.
A big thanks goes out to our release engineering
team members for their hard work over many months to turn 2008.0 into reality.
Get the new release from our "Get
Gentoo!" page.
Discuss this!
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 9 hours ago
Elections just ended for the Gentoo
council for the next year. Turnout was 57% with 145 developers voting, which is
quite excellent. The council, created by GLEP 39 to replace Gentoo's previous
hierarchy, decides on global issues and policies that affect multiple projects. To select council
members, Gentoo uses the Condorcet voting method, which involves ranking them in order rather
than just picking a single candidate. Here are your new council members, listed by
ranking in the election results:
All of the previous council members who ran again were re-elected, and the two new members are
Mark Loeser and Tobias Scherbaum. A full list of
ranked candidates is also available. These
graphs illustrate the results more clearly. They are histograms, where higher columns on the
left side indicate high rankings, and higher columns on the right side indicate low rankings.
The new council members will get right to work—the new council's first
meeting, scheduled for July 10, is approaching fast.
Discuss this!
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Gentoo Linux News -
58 days and 10 hours ago
What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs
When: Saturday, July 5, in a timezone near you
What do you need to bring?
- A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client
- Your bug. If you don't have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and your
skills
- Your favorite editor
- A way to test that your bug is fixed (asking people counts!)
- You don't need to know C, C++, or bash
What's a bug? Gentoo's way of tracking change requests. A change request can be
anything from "I've found a typo in foo" to "I've built this really useful program called bar but
there's no ebuild for it." Bugs have various levels of helpfulness, from identifying the
existence of a problem to localizing the problem to providing the patch to fix it.
There are bugs in documentation such as man pages as well as ebuilds and the source code that
Gentoo distributes. These bugs are problem reports. Bugs for things Gentoo doesn't do yet but you
think should be done are feature requests. Bugday is more about fixing problems than
adding features, but you won't be turned away if you want help with a new feature.
Want to know more about Bugday? It's held on the first Saturday of every month.
It's an opportunity for everyone to contribute to making Gentoo better, and eventually you might
even become a Gentoo developer. See the Bugday project page for more details.
Bugday is about community spirit. Gentoo is a
community—there is no "me" and "them", there is only "we," so instead of
lobbying for "them" to fix your particular bug, work together to fix it! Bugday is an opportunity
to get help to help yourself.
If you've been wanting to get involved but weren't sure how, Bugday is a great way for you to see
what goes on in making a distribution and get involved in Gentoo.
Discuss this!
Roy Bamford contributed the draft for this announcement.
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