The Gentoo Project have announced the release of Gentoo Linux 2008.0 The new release boasts an updated Live CD installer, the The Gentoo Project have announced the release of Gentoo Linux 2008.0.

When the long-awaited Gentoo 2008.0 release finally hit mirrors last month, the two largest groups of users found themselves out of luck: x86 users discovered that their live CD wouldn't copy the kernel during install, and the AMD64 image wouldn't fit onto a standard CD-ROM. This was not a great start for a distribution whose comeback may rest upon this release.

"The most customizable GNU/Linux distribution: Gentoo, canceled the 2008.1 release due to a change on its factoring release phase. As shown in the “New release strategy to provide more current install media” posted by Gentoo: ..."

"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..."

Last night I decided to give Gentoo 2008.0 beta2 a try. All I got to say is wow! It installed much easier than Gentoo 2008.0 beta1 and is probably one of my fastest Gentoo installs ever.

"...The releng team decided just before Christmas to cancel the release and roll all the effort into Gentoo 2008.0 since no possibility existed of getting a well-tested 2007.1 release out before 2008."

http://hardware4linux.info/ is a new community web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux.

"Hi, I just wanted to tell you that the Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo forums might be on its way to become active again:

- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41939.html ..."

Gentoo's recently released version 2007.0 gets a fair-to-middling review from Linux.com.