What is gentoo linux

What is gentoo linux

Welcome to Gentoo, a highly flexible, source-based Linux distribution.

Gentoo accepted into Google Summer of Code 2023 (Feb 22, 2023)

Do you want to learn more about Gentoo and contribute to your favourite free software project?! Once again, now for the 11th time, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code!

The GSoC is an excellent opportunity for gaining real-world experience in software design and making oneself known in the broader open source community. It also looks great on a resume. Some initial project ideas can be found here, but new projects ideas are also welcome. For new projects time is of the essence: they have to be worked out, discussed with the mentors, and submitted before the April 4th deadline. It is strongly recommended that contributors refine new project ideas with a mentor before proposing the idea formally.

Potential GSoC contributors are encouraged to e-mail the GSoC admins with their name, IRC nickname, and the desired project, and discuss ideas in the #gentoo-soc IRC channel on Libera Chat. Further information can be found on the Gentoo GSoC 2023 wiki page. Those with unanswered questions should also not hesitate to contact the Summer of Code mentors via their mailing list.

2022 in retrospect & late happy new year 2023! (Feb 9, 2023)

A quite late Happy New Year 2023 to all of you!

Once again with 2022 an eventful year has passed, and Gentoo is still alive and kicking! 2023 already started some time ago and some of us have even already been meeting up and networking at FOSDEM 2023. Still, we are happy to present once more a review of the Gentoo news of the past year 2022. Read on for new developers, distribution wide initiatives and improvements, up-to-date numbers on Gentoo development, tales from the infrastructure, and all the fresh new packages you can emerge now.

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Security advisories from our Security database

GLSA 202305-37	Apache Tomcat: Multiple Vulnerabilities	low
GLSA 202305-36	Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities	high
GLSA 202305-35	Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities	high
GLSA 202305-34	CGAL: Multiple Vulnerabilities	high
GLSA 202305-33	OpenImageIO: Multiple Vulnerabilities	normal

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About Gentoo

Gentoo is a free operating system based on Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
Extreme configurability, performance, and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution, or something else—whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a metadistribution.

Of course, Gentoo is more than just software. It is also a community around the distribution. Gentoo benefits from around 250 developers and thousands of users, many of which are experts in their fields. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure, release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup, hardening, and more.

To advise and help Gentoo’s global development, a 7-member council is elected on a yearly basis which decides on global issues, policies, and advancements in the Gentoo project.

What is Portage?

Portage can be considered the heart of Gentoo: it is the software distribution system that performs many key functions in Gentoo systems:

To get the latest software for Gentoo, simply type one command: emerge —sync . This command tells Portage to sync the Gentoo ebuild repository from a mirror. The ebuild repository contains a complete collection of scripts that are used by Portage to create and install the latest packages. Currently more than 19,000 unique packages are available for installation on Gentoo. New packages are being added all the time.

Portage is also the package installation system:

To install a package, type emerge package , at which point Portage automatically builds a custom version of the package to your exact specifications, optimizing it for your hardware and ensuring that the optional features in the package that you want are enabled—and those you don’t want aren’t.

Portage also keeps your system up-to-date:

Typing one command ( emerge -uD @world ) will ensure that all the packages on the system are updated automatically.

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