180563164
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Heraklit writes:
Gentoo Linux has posted a 2025 project retrospective, with numbers and lots of interesting developments:Once again, a lot has happened in Gentoo over the past months. New developers, more binary packages, GnuPG alternatives support, Gentoo for WSL, improved Rust bootstrap, better NGINX packaging, [...]
Gentoo currently consists of 31663 ebuilds for 19174 different packages. For amd64 (x86-64), there are 89 GBytes of binary packages available on the mirrors. Gentoo each week builds 154 distinct installation stages for different processor architectures and system configurations, with an overwhelming part of these fully up-to-date.
The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2025, with a slight decrease from 123942 to 112927. The number of commits by external contributors was 9396, now across 377 unique external authors.
175309857
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Heraklit writes:
Gentoo Linux, distribution (not only) for coders and experts, adds another exciting feature: the powerful DTrace dynamical tracing framework introduced by Sun Microsystems / Oracle originally for Solaris, is now available out of the box:The real, mythical DTrace comes to Gentoo! Need to dynamically trace your kernel or userspace programs, with rainbows, ponies, and unicorns — and all entirely safely and in production?! Gentoo is now ready for that! Just emerge dev-debug/dtrace and you’re all set.
172616371
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Heraklit writes:
Behind the scenes, the source-based Linux distribution Gentoo has had binary package support for years. Now, official downloads are added, for free mix-and-match with source-based installation! From Gentoo's homepage:
"To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates — not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy!"
