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information about Gentoo. The GWN summarizes the key events in the Gentoo
project each week and presents them in a clear, concise format. With sections
covering general news, security, bugs, portage and other topics, the GWN should
offer something for everyone. The current version of the GWN can always be
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| Date |
Summary |
| 12 June 2006 |
Portage 2.1 release, Gentoo/Alpha status report, Tetex changes, Gentoo
Women
|
| 29 May 2006 |
Erratum to last week's GCC 4.1 article, GnuPG 1.9 stabilized, rsync server
howto rewrite
|
| 22 May 2006 |
GCC 4.1 to be added this week, Summer of Code update, old-style PHP packages removed
from the tree, reports from Milan and Graz events, managing overlays with
layman
|
| 15 May 2006 |
Portage module removal, GWN translations, Gentoo events in Italy, Austria and Norway
|
| 8 May 2006 |
New and improved Ada support in Portage, Gnome 2.14 unmasked
|
| 1 May 2006 |
Gentoo becomes a mentor in Google Summer of Code, new Howto on backtraces,
ebuild improvements and user feedback
|
| 24 April 2006 |
OpenLDAP 2.3 on its way into Portage, call for comments on new subforums
|
| 17 April 2006 |
LWE Boston report, Python 2.4.3 in Portage, old-style PHP packages going away,
Forums internationalization effort
|
| 3 April 2006 |
Gentoo/MIPS stage 3 for Cobalt servers, Gentoo at LWE Boston
|
| 27 March 2006 |
Security team recruiting new members, Bugzilla category change, Ruby on Rails in
Portage
|
| 20 March 2006 |
x86 arch testers team looking for members, Athlon X2 dual-core host accessible
for Gentoo developers, modular X to be unmasked this week, report from open-source
conference in Tokyo
|
| 13 March 2006 |
Gentoo Linux 2006.0 release media available at the Gentoo store, Gentoo community
directory project launched, Gentoo events in Calicut and Leipzig, report from
Chemnitzer Linuxtage
|
| 6 March 2006 |
Gentoo Linux 2006.0 download statistics, Portage fix, PPC team meeting,
Gentoo event calendar for London, San Jose and Bonn
|
| 27 February 2006 |
Gentoo Linux 2006.0 released today, FOSDEM report, 3rd European Gentoo Developer
Meeting, request for help on Bugday, Gentoo on display in Chemnitz again
|
| 20 February 2006 |
FOSDEM to open on Saturday, Qmail request for comments, yet another Gentoo-based
distribution, Gentoo on Intel Macs
|
| 13 February 2006 |
eselect 1.0 released, Polish Gentoo clone
|
| 6 February 2006 |
Gnome 2.12 stable, Wi-Spy wireless data analyzer donation, KPDF and Poppler library,
EUSecWest conference, OSC 2006 (spring edition) in Tokyo
|
| 30 January 2006 |
Modular X entering ~arch, new-style php packages, SLOTted MySQL, "Prefixed
Portage"
|
| 16 January 2006 |
New baselayout with improve runscripts, Portage changes USE flags default
behavior, PPC development roadmap, AMD64 project update
|
| 9 January 2006 |
FOSDEM coming up, Lithuanian translators needed, portrait of Andrea Barisani
|
| 19 December 2005 |
Gentoo documentation project status update, Gentoo Summer Camp 2006 organizer
forum, Gentoo home media center, KDE.news on Gentoo server
|
| 12 December 2005 |
Qt4 is on its way into Portage, Alpha project status update, GWN guide released,
Gentoo Forums statistics visualized
|
| 5 December 2005 |
gcc 3.4.4 marked stable on x86, Power.org offers developer memberships for free,
100,000 registered Gentoo Forums users, call for contributors, FOSS.IN
Bangalore, Linuxtage Essen
|
| 28 November 2005 |
Call for comments on deprecating xsupplicant, FOSS.IN in Bangalore, Bonenkai
in Yokohama
|
| 21 November 2005 |
Report from the 2nd European Gentoo developer conference at Schloss Kransberg,
phpgroupware removed from the tree, 2005.1-r1 release for select architectures,
GWN via RSS feed
|
| 14 November 2005 |
Stage3 is now the default installation method, interview with Douglas
Robertson about his video jukeboxes on Gentoo, Gentoo at the LWE and DevCon
in the Frankfurt/Main area
|
| 7 November 2005 |
GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting), interview with Jacob Lindberg at Brenntag
Nordic, GeCHI conference in Italy
|
| 31 October 2005 |
New Korean GWN translation, subforum introduction, Portage progressing
|
| 24 October 2005 |
Gentoo Linux/MIPS SGI LiveCD and Cobalt stages released
|
| 17 October 2005 |
Flagedit, subforums introduced, MySQL 4.1 being stabilized
|
| 10 October 2005 |
Gnome 2.12, LWE London report, Oberhausen GUM
|
| 3 October 2005 |
Python 2.4 update, Gentoo/ALT project news, translator recruiting
|
| 26 September 2005 |
New IRC channel for ebuild authors, reminder for European Gentoo developer conference call for papers
|
| 19 September 2005 |
Gentoo council meeting, European Gentoo developer conference announcement
|
| 12 September 2005 |
Apache package updates
|
| 5 September 2005 |
Gentoo Council elections, PHP4/5 announcement, new TOR policy in the Forums
|
| 29 August 2005 |
Gentoo documentation updates, Swedish rescue CD for PegasosPPC released
|
| 22 August 2005 |
Report about LWE San Francisco, User projects (car console and MythTV)
|
| 15 August 2005 |
2005.1 released, first US Gentoo developer conference webcast from San Francisco
|
| 8 August 2005 |
First Gentoo Installer, Tor users are blocked on Forums
|
| 1 August 2005 |
Gentoo Developer conference in San Francisco, German translators seeking,
Bugday 2nd anniversary, User Interview
|
| 25 July 2005 |
Bug 100,000, keeping gentoo-sources-2.4
|
| 18 July 2005 |
Discontinuing gentoo-2.4-sources, hardware donations, first IA64 LiveCD,
bugzilla upgrade
|
| 11 July 2005 |
Gentoo documentation status update, 2.5 million forum posts, Greek
translators seek reinforcement
|
| 27 June 2005 |
Gentoo developer receives award, LinuxTag report, AMD64 development hardware ready for use |
| 20 June 2005 |
Gentoo store under new management, LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Gentoo Forums admin and mods become regular staff members, hardware donations to the Forums |
| 13 June 2005 |
New Open Desktop Workstations with Gentoo preinstalled, Gentoo/MIPS experimental LiveCD, gendocedit released |
| 6 June 2005 |
Python 2.4 unmasked, busybox glitches contained |
| 30 May 2005 |
AMD64 hardware donations, documentation updates |
| 23 May 2005 |
'Emergency issue', Trustees election and OSDL article |
| 9 May 2005 |
Printing herd recruits new members, staff and software changes at forums.gentoo.org
|
| 2 May 2005 |
Unofficial Gentoo development guide, OpenLDAP update
|
| 25 April 2005 |
Project Dolphin, new mailing lists
|
| 18 April 2005 |
Documentation updates, release engineering meeting minutes, new LiveDVD for PPC
|
| 11 April 2005 |
Cosmetic touches to the website, forum staff reshuffle
|
| 4 April 2005 |
April fool's jokes, webrsync revisited, donation report
|
| 28 March 2005 |
Gentoo 2005.0 released, PayPal donations, SSL support for Bugzilla, Open Source Conference in Tokyo
|
| 21 March 2005 |
Documentation additions and updates, Open Source Conference in Tokyo
|
| 14 March 2005 |
Gentoo UK conference report, Planet Gentoo launched, ODW sales begin, Lörrach
IT/Linux Days
|
| 7 March 2005 |
2005.0 security rebuild, infrastructure changes, sys-apps moves
|
| 28 February 2005 |
First European Gentoo developer meeting, FOSDEM report, news from the Apache herd,
Gentoo/FreeBSD documentation
|
| 21 February 2005 |
LWE Boston report, FOSDEM, Gentoo UK conference, RSS-feeds, Gentoo on a Kuro-Box
|
| 14 February 2005 |
Gentoo Forums migrated to new hard- and software, event reminders,
interview with Thierry Carrez, Open-Xchange in Gentoo Linux
|
| 7 February 2005 |
Linux World Expo in Boston, two million posts at forums.gentoo.org, new mailing list and IRC channel for media packages |
| 31 January 2005 |
Trusted Gentoo, AMD64 looking for help, Gentoo/PPC GameCD |
| 24 January 2005 |
Gentoo/OpenSolaris, kernel profiles for 2005.0, Genesi Open Desktop Workstations, Mac Mini booting Gentoo Linux/PPC, FOSDEM pre-announcement |
| 17 January 2005 |
Gentoo trademark and logo guidelines, new GWN translations, goals for 2005, LWE Boston |
| 10 January 2005 |
Forum attacker fought off, 2.6.10 kernel stable, Gentoo lectures at MIT, Canadian elementary school Gentoo LTSP project |
| 3 January 2005 |
Gentoo Forums 1000 days anniversary, website redesign and documentation updates, call for Polish contributors, GentooJP Bounenkai report |
| 29 December 2004 |
Second anniversary of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, new buildtime and stats database client, 2004 bugzilla statistics |
| 20
December 2004 |
Call for speakers at Gentoo UK event, new Catalyst mailing list, GWN translators needed |
| 13
December 2004 |
New Chinese Gentoo Forum, Bonenkai in Tokyo, USE flag editors |
| 6
December 2004 |
Gentoo Developer Meetings in Berlin (December) and Manchester (February), 2004.3 maintenance release, Gentoo on a stick |
| 29
November 2004 |
Genesi announces PegasosPPCs with preinstalled Gentoo, central script repository, new Turkish GWN mailing list operational |
| 22
November 2004 |
Gentoo Linux 2004.3 on DVD, advanced Portage development, documentation updates |
| 15
November 2004 |
Gentoo Linux 2004.3 released, kernel tree revisited, new section: Future zone |
| 8
November 2004 |
User Survey results, Italian Gentoo Day |
| 1
November 2004 |
LWE in Germany, call for Java developers, Gentoo Bugday |
| 25
October 2004 |
Portage 2.0.51 released, website redesign contest result, Haskell developers needed, documentation update, LWE in Germany, UK GUM in Cambridge |
| 18
October 2004 |
2004.3 Release Beta versions available soon, new lead translator for Japanese GWN, Munich Gentoo User Group event |
| 11
October 2004 |
Portage hits 100,000 files, PegasosPPC donations to Gentoo developers, Penguin webcam in the Antarctis |
| 4
October 2004 |
Final stage of the website redesign contest, report from the International Gentoo PPC Dev Meeting, driver changes in Portage' |
| 27
September 2004 |
Gentoo documentation updates, new section 'Gentoo in the press' |
| 20
September 2004 |
First Official Gentoo User Survey, Forum Software Embellishments, Gentoo PPC Developer Meeting |
| 13
September 2004 |
Leave of Yuji Carlos Kosugi as GWN main editor, new minimal
LiveCD |
| 06
September 2004 |
New bugday website, several project updates and an interview with
Deedra Waters |
| 30 August 2004 |
Forums migration to new hardware complete.
|
| 23 August 2004 |
Gentoo meeting in the UK. 2004.2 statistics. Update on the forums.
|
| 16 August 2004 |
Infrastructure hardware donations. Project updates.
|
| 9 August 2004 |
Gentoo Linux at Linux World Expo San Francisco. Update on the website redesign.
|
| 2 August 2004 |
Gentoo Linux 2004.2 released. First Anniversary of BugDay. German GWN translation team seeking additional translators. |
| 26 July 2004 |
net-www being retired. Volunteers required: UK Meeting Organising Committee. |
| 19 July 2004 |
Gentoo MacOS X Released. |
| 12 July 2004 |
Portage update. |
| 5 July 2004 |
Gentoo announces web redesign contest. Bootsplash now working on PPC. |
| 28 June 2004 |
First Installation of Gentoo Linux on a Quadruple Opteron. Gentoo Present at the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe. |
| 21 June 2004 |
Announcing Wasabi 0.2. Gentoo Linux seeking new kernel developers. |
| 14 June 2004 |
Gentoo Not-For-Profit Paperwork complete. Ways to get involved: Introducing webapps-request@gentoo.org. |
| 7 June 2004 |
Introducing app-admin/wasabi, a log-monitoring tool. Some GLEP news. |
| 31 May 2004 |
Beta LiveCDs and stages for PPC64. Changes to net-mail/mailwrapper various related mail transfer agents. Gentoo/BSD seeking interested developers. |
| 24 May 2004 |
Various Gentoo Documentation Project updates. New Roles in Gentoo/PPC. |
| 17 May 2004 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary. |
| 10 May 2004 |
Gentoo Documenation Project Status Report. GLEP 26: kernel handling with Portage. |
| 3 May 2004 |
Gentoo Linux Chief Architect Daniel Robbins retires. 10th BugDay a big success. |
| 26 April 2004 |
New apache maintainer and public mailing list. Gentoo Linux seeking
a new squid maintainer. |
| 19 April 2004 |
Transition to NFP organization. |
| 12 April 2004 |
Gentoo Weekly Newsletter reorganizing. Gentoo Linux Project seeking SAMBA developers. |
| 5 April 2004 |
Gentoo Linux Project seeking additional kernel developers. Gentoo Linux Newsletter seeking additional contributors. |
| 29 March 2004 |
Support for multiple MTAs with mailwrapper. Apache2 upgrade. Gentoo Linux seeking a dedicated Apache developer. |
| 22 March 2004 |
Security-only updates and stackable profiles. |
| 15 March 2004 |
2004.1 Release Information. |
| 08 March 2004 |
LinuxTag Cheminitz. |
| 01 March 2004 |
2004.0 Released. |
| 23 February 2004 |
FOSDEM Brussels 21 & 22 February 2004. Gentoo Linux still looking for an additional dialup developer. |
| 16 February 2004 |
Gentoo growing in popularity. |
| 09 February 2004 |
Gentoo Linux Project seeking an additional dialup developer. New gentoo-science maliing list. |
| 02 February 2004 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary - 12 Jan 2004 and 26 Jan 2004. Gentoo Linux BugDay on Saturday, February 7. |
| 26 January 2004 |
SELinux i686 LiveCD now available. |
| 19 January 2004 |
Gentoo Linux a finalist for LWE's "Best Open Source Project" award. Gentoo Linux Desktop Project Co-leads chosen. |
| 12 January 2004 |
2003 Gentoo Bug Hunt Winners. |
| 05 January 2004 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary - 15 December 2003. |
| 29 December 2003 |
First Anniversary of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. GWN Staff Profiles. |
| 22 December 2003 |
First Anniversary of Gentoo Weekly Newsletter next week. |
| 15 December 2003 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary: 1 Dec. 2003. |
| 08 December 2003 |
Gentoo: 2004 and beyond. Gentoo rsync.gentoo.org server compromised. 'emerge rsync' etiquette. More Praise: Linux Journal. |
| 01 December 2003 |
Gentoo Documentation Project looking for more translators. Praise for Gentoo Linux in Linux Weekly News. |
| 24 November 2003 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary - 17 November 2003. Gentoo Desktop update. |
| 17 November 2003 |
packages.gentoo.org now live. Porting "sandbox" to BSD libc. |
| 10 November 2003 |
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary - 3 November 2003. |
| 03 November 2003 |
Embedded Gentoo seeking interested developers. |
| 27 October 2003 |
Improved support for virtual hosting and web-based applications. 2.6 kernel LiveCDs available for x86 and amd64. Open kernel developer positions in the Gentoo Linux Project. GWN seeking additional contributor. |
| 20 October 2003 |
An update on GLEPs. |
| 13 October 2003 |
GNOME 2.4 marked stable on x86. |
| 06 October 2003 |
Gentoo Linux Performance Metrics. |
| 29 September 2003 |
BugDay on Saturday, October 4. Featured Sponsor - Oregon State University. |
| 22 September 2003 |
Gentoo 1.4 maintenance release 1 for x86. Experimental IA-64 stage1 available |
| 15 September 2003 |
Official Gentoo port to IA64 begun. |
| 08 September 2003 |
Second Gentoo BugDay a success. |
| 01 September 2003 |
Portage tarballs available for OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Second Gentoo BugDay to be held on September 6. Gentoo Documentation team looking for new French lead translator. |
| 25 August 2003 |
New experimental LiveCDs and stages released for the AMD64 platform. Gentoo Forums reach several new milestones |
| 18 August 2003 |
Gentoo migrates to a more robust DNS infrastructure. More photos from LWE. |
| 11 August 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at Linux World Expo. Gentoo Documentation Project looking for new lead Dutch translator. |
| 04 August 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at Linux World Expo on August 5-7. First Gentoo BugDay held on August 2. WineX ebuilds removed from Portage. |
| 28 July 2003 |
Radical changes to Perl module handling. First Gentoo Bug Day on August 2. Gentoo Linux 1.4 for PowerPC now available for pre-order. Indonesian documentation team in need of translators. |
| 21 July 2003 |
Gentoo Linux 1.4 to be released at LinuxWorld Expo. Gentoo Linux 1.4 available for pre-order. Open positions in the Gentoo Linux project. Introducing the Gentoo Server project. Bytemark Hosting begins offering Gentoo Linux |
| 14 July 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at LinuxTag. ViewCVS back up. |
| 07 July 2003 |
Kurt Lieber stepping down as editor of GWN. Gentoo coming to Windows with Cygwin. Milestone reached in herds project. Infrastructure changes. Controversy about inappropriate content in ebuilds. GWN seeking additional contributors. |
| 30 June 2003 |
Gentoo Linux adopts a new management structure. Fork of Gentoo Linux announced. GWN seeking additional translators. |
| 23 June 2003 |
Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4?. The Meta Package project. Two additional new source mirrors for North America. GWN looking for additional translators. |
| 16 June 2003 |
Gentoo Linux Enhancement Proposals. bugs.gentoo.org gets a new home. |
| 09 June 2003 |
Announcing Gentoo on MacOS X. Hardened Gentoo demonstrates SELinux. Open positions in the Gentoo Linux project |
| 02 June 2003 |
North America gets two new source mirrors. CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project. Upcoming infrastructure changes. |
| 26 May 2003 |
Hardware failures on Oregon State mirror. Gentoo Linux is seeking developers for the GNOME team. Gentoo Linux in the news. |
| 19 May 2003 |
Announcing Gentoo Games, Inc. Gentoo Linux attends E3. |
| 12 May 2003 |
Gentoo Linux to make major announcement at E3. Gentoo Technologies to partner with Super Computer, Inc. to bring Gentoo Linux to the Opteron platform. |
| 05 May 2003 |
Feature list for next release of Gentoo Linux 1.4. Rsync etiquette guidelines. New mailing lists available. |
| 28 Apr 2003 |
Proposed changes to how ebuilds are managed. Mailing list changes. Early addition of tcl/tk |
| 21 Apr 2003 |
Portage security features detailed. Open positions with the Gentoo Linux project. Gentoo Linux is seeking additional source mirrors and colocation space. Gentoo Linux now available on the HPPA platform |
| 14 Apr 2003 |
Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc4 Released. New Unreal Tournament 2003 Game CD |
| 07 Apr 2003 |
Yes, it was a joke. Portage moves to a new, more secure format. |
| 01 Apr 2003 |
Portage 2.1 adopts RPM format, Gentoo/PPC team restructuring, Release schedule announced for 1.4_rc4 |
| 24 Mar 2003 |
How to become a Gentoo developer, changes in the way Gentoo Linux supports CFLAGS, errata from last week's issue |
| 17 Mar 2003 |
Update from the Game Developers Conference, GWN looking for contributors, rsync.gentoo.org shows some strain, Gentoo Linux launches a "hardened Gentoo" effort, new items at the Gentoo Store |
| 10 Mar 2003 |
distcc in a nutshell and a remarkable response to our call for developers |
| 03 Mar 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at the Game Developers Conference, Open Developer Positions in the Gentoo Linux project, Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc3 released |
| 24 Feb 2003 |
Gentoo partners with NeTraverse. Gentoo Linux 1.4 update. Pictures of FOSDEM |
| 17 Feb 2003 |
Catch Gentoo Zetagrid fever. New rsync mirrors. Gnome 2.2 now in Portage |
| 10 Feb 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at FOSDEM, New Release Manager for 1.4, Icons for Gentoo Linux |
| 3 Feb 2003 |
KDE 3.1 Released, mirror slowness and Gentoo server migrations. |
| 27 Jan 2003 |
Gentoo Linux at LinuxWorld Expo. GLSAs being integrated into Portage. Fighting spam with SpamAssassin. |
| 20 Jan 2003 |
Next Release of Gentoo to rc3, Gentoo PPC Developer presents at MIT |
| 13 Jan 2003 |
Changes to Gentoo and gcc, Freezes to the Portage Tree and Gentoo Linux 1.4 Nears Completion |
| 06 Jan 2003 |
Portage, Perl and Prelinking updates, plus a chance to help Gentoo Linux |
| 30 Dec 2002 |
Gentoo at LinuxWorld Expo, 1.4 updates, New Kernel Strategy |
| 23 Dec 2002 |
Official Launch of GWN, Portage Snafu, CVSup vs. rsync, CVS Ebuild Policy |
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