Gentoo Linux

The first issue of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the New Year brings updates about improvements to Portage, including reverse dependency checking and other features that are sure to be popular with Gentoo Linux users everywhere.

Gentoo Linux has announced the second release candidate for the upcoming 1.4 version of Gentoo Linux. New in 1.4_rc2 is the Gentoo Reference Platform: a suite of binary tarballs that allow for faster initial installation. Currently X, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, and OpenOffice,org are available as binary installations for x86 architectures (optimised for i586, i686, pentium3, athlon, athlon-xp, and athlon-mp) and ppc architectures (optimised for G3 and G4), with sparc (ultrasparc optimisation) and alpha to follow soon.

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