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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux

Last Update: Monday 6 February 2012 09:20 GMT


Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network professionals. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more.


Gentoo Summary
Distribution Gentoo Linux
Home Page http://www.gentoo.org/
Mailing Lists http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
User Forums http://forums.gentoo.org/
Documentation http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
http://wiki.gentoo.org/
Screenshots The Coding Studio
Download Mirrors http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
http://torrents.gentoo.org/
Bug Tracker http://bugs.gentoo.org/
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  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Feature unstable stable 12.0 11.2 11.0 10.1 2008.0 2007.0 2006.1 2006.0 2005.1 2005.0 2004.3 2004.2 2004.1 2004.0 1.4 1.2 1.1a 1.0 Feature
Release Date 2012/02/06 2012/02/06 2012/01/02 2011/08/07 2011/03/08 2009/10/10 2008/07/06 2007/05/07 2006/08/30 2006/02/27 2005/08/08 2005/03/28 2004/11/15 2004/07/26 2004/04/28 2004/03/01 2003/08/05 2002/06/05 2002/04/08 2002/03/31 Release Date
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
CDs -- -- 1 DVD 1 DVD 1 DVD 1 DVD 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 CDs
Free Download Packages Packages ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Free Download
Installation Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Installation
Default Desktop -- -- KDE KDE KDE KDE Xfce GNOME -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Default Desktop
Package Management SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) SRC (Portage) Package Management
Office Suite GOffice, KOffice, LibreOffice GOffice, KOffice, LibreOffice KOffice, LibreOffice GOffice, KOffice, LibreOffice GOffice, OO.o GOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice, OO.o GOffice, KOffice KOffice Office Suite
Processor Architecture x86, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, ia64, mips, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, ia64, mips, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, x86_64 x86, x86_64 x86, x86_64 x86, x86_64 x86, alpha, amd64, hppa, ia64, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, ia64, mips, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc x86, amd64, ppc, sparc x86, amd64, ppc, sparc x86, HPPA, ppc, sparc, mips x86, HPPA, ppc, sparc, mips x86, ppc, sparc x86, ppc, sparc   Processor Architecture
Journaled File Systems ext4, ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS -- -- -- ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ReiserFS, XFS Journaled File Systems
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes en en en Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Multilingual
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes -- -- -- cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw       Asian Language Support
Package unstable stable 12.0 11.2 11.0 10.1 2008.0 2007.0 2006.1 2006.0 2005.1 2005.0 2004.3 2004.2 2004.1 2004.0 1.4 1.2 1.1a 1.0 Package
abiword (2.8.6) 2.8.6 2.8.6 -- 2.8.6 2.8.6 2.6.4 2.6.3 2.4.6 2.4.5 2.2.11 2.2.8 2.2.3 2.0.10 2.0.6 2.0.5 2.0.2 1.0.6 1.0.1 0.99.3 -- abiword (2.8.6)
alsa-lib (1.0.25) 1.0.25 1.0.24.1 1.0.24.1 1.0.24.1 1.0.24.1 1.0.20 1.0.16 1.0.14rc3 1.0.11 1.0.10 1.0.9 1.0.8 1.0.6 1.0.5 1.0.3b 0.9.8 0.9.2 0.9.0rc1 0.9.0beta10 -- alsa-lib (1.0.25)
ati-driver (8.930) 12.1 11.11 -- -- -- -- 8.471.3 8.32.5 8.21.7                       ati-driver (8.930)
banshee (2.2.1) 2.2.1 2.2.0 -- -- -- -- 0.12.1                           banshee (2.2.1)
bash (4.2) 4.2 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.05b 2.05b 2.05b 2.05b 2.05b 2.05b 2.05a 2.05a 2.05a bash (4.2)
bind (9.8.1-P1) 9.8.1-P1 9.7.4-P1 -- -- 9.7.3 -- 9.4.1-P1 9.3.4 9.3.2 9.3.2 9.2.5 9.2.2 9.2.2 9.2.2 9.2.2 9.2.2 9.2.2 9.2.1 9.2.0 -- bind (9.8.1-P1)
chromium (r120590) 18.0.1025.1 16.0.912.77 -- 13.0.782.107 -- --                             chromium (r120590)
cups (1.5.2) 1.5.0 1.4.8 1.4.8 1.4.6 1.4.6 1.3.10 1.3.7 1.2.9 1.1.23 1.1.23 1.1.23 1.1.23 1.1.20 1.1.20 1.1.20 1.1.20 1.1.19 1.1.14 1.1.14 -- cups (1.5.2)
dhcp (4.2.3-P2) -- -- -- -- -- 3.1.2-P1 3.1.1 3.0.3 3.0.3 3.0.3 3.0.1 3.0.1 3.0.1 3.0.1 3.0pl2 3.0pl2 3.0pl2 3.0 3.0 -- dhcp (4.2.3-P2)
firefox (10.0) 10.0 9.0 9.0 5.0 3.6.13 3.5.3 2.0.0.15 2.0.0.3 1.5.0.6 1.0.7 1.0.6 1.0.2 1.0pre 0.9.1             firefox (10.0)
freetype (2.4.8) 2.4.8 2.4.8 2.4.8 2.4.6 2.4.4 2.3.9 2.3.7 2.3.3 2.1.10 2.1.9 2.1.9 2.1.9 2.1.5 2.1.5 2.1.5 2.1.5 2.1.4 2.1.0 2.0.9 -- freetype (2.4.8)
gcc (4.6.2) 4.6.2 4.6.1 4.5.3 4.5.2 4.5.2 4.3.2 3.4.6 4.1.1 4.1.1 3.4.4 3.4.4 3.4.3 3.4.1 3.3.3 3.3.3 3.3.2 3.2.3 2.95.3 2.95.3 2.95.3 gcc (4.6.2)
gimp (2.6.12) 2.7.4 2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.4 2.4.2 2.2.14 2.2.12 2.2.8 2.2.6 2.0.4 2.0.4 2.0.0 1.2.5 1.2.5 1.2.4 1.2.3 1.2.3 -- gimp (2.6.12)
glibc (2.14.1) 2.14.1 2.13 2.14.1 2.13 2.12.2 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.4 2.3.4 2.3.5 2.3.4 2.3.4 2.3.3 2.3.2 2.3.2 2.3.2 2.2.5 2.2.5 2.2.5 glibc (2.14.1)
gnome-shell (3.2.2.1) 3.2.2.1 -- 3.2.1 3.0.2 -- --                             gnome-shell (3.2.2.1)
gnucash (2.4.9) 2.4.8 2.4.8 -- -- 2.2.9 2.2.9 2.2.5 2.0.5 1.8.11 1.8.11 1.8.9 1.8.9 1.8.9 1.8.9 1.8.8 1.8.8 1.8.4 1.6.6 1.6.6 -- gnucash (2.4.9)
gnumeric (1.10.17) 1.10.17 1.10.17 1.10.17 1.10.17 1.10.13 1.8.4 1.8.3 1.6.3 1.6.3 1.4.3 1.4.3 1.4.1 1.2.13 1.2.6 1.2.6 1.2.2 1.0.13 1.0.6 1.0.5 -- gnumeric (1.10.17)
grub (1.99) 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.93 0.93 0.90 0.91 0.90 grub (1.99)
gtk+ (3.2.3) 3.2.3 3.0.12 3.2.2 3.0.12 2.22.1 2.16.6 2.12.9 2.10.9 2.8.19 2.8.8 2.6.7 2.6.2 2.4.9 2.4.1 2.4.0 2.2.4 2.2.1 2.0.2 1.2.10 -- gtk+ (3.2.3)
httpd (2.2.22) 2.2.21 2.2.21 -- -- -- -- 2.2.9 2.0.58 2.0.58 2.0.55 2.0.54 2.0.52 2.0.49 2.0.49 -- -- -- -- -- -- httpd (2.2.22)
inkscape (0.48.2) 0.48.2 0.48.2 0.48.2 0.48.2 0.48.1 0.46 0.46 0.45.1 0.43 0.43 0.41                   inkscape (0.48.2)
jre (7u2) 1.7.0 1.6.0 -- -- -- -- 1.6.0                           jre (7u2)
k3b (2.0.2) 2.0.2 2.0.2 -- -- -- -- 1.0.4 0.12.17 0.12.14 0.12.8 0.11.24 0.11.18 0.11.17 0.11.12 0.11.9 0.11.1 0.8.1 0.6.0pre2 0.6.0pre2 -- k3b (2.0.2)
kdelibs (4.8.0) 4.8.0 4.7.4 4.7.4 4.7.0 4.6.0 4.3.1 3.5.9 3.5.5 3.5.2 3.4.3 3.4.1 3.3.2 3.3.1 3.2.3 3.2.2 3.2.0 3.1.2 3.0 3.0 -- kdelibs (4.8.0)
libgnome (2.32.1) 2.32.1 2.32.1 2.32.1 2.32.1 2.32.1 2.26.0 2.20.1.1 2.16.0 2.14.1 2.12.0.1 2.10.0 2.8.0 2.8.0 2.6.0 2.4.0 2.4.0 2.2.2 -- -- -- libgnome (2.32.1)
libreoffice (3.4.5) 3.3.4 3.3.4 3.4.99.2 3.4.2 3.2.1 3.1.1 2.4.1 2.1.0 2.0.3 2.0.1 1.1.4 1.1.4 1.1.3 1.1.1 1.1.1 1.1.0 1.0.3 1.0 641b -- libreoffice (3.4.5)
Package unstable stable 12.0 11.2 11.0 10.1 2008.0 2007.0 2006.1 2006.0 2005.1 2005.0 2004.3 2004.2 2004.1 2004.0 1.4 1.2 1.1a 1.0 Package
linux (3.2.4) 3.2.4 3.1.6 3.1.6 3.0 2.6.37 2.6.30.5 2.6.25.9 2.6.19 2.6.17 2.6.15 2.6.12 2.6.11 2.6.9 2.6.7 2.6.5 2.4.25 2.4.19 2.4.18 2.4.18 2.4.17 linux (3.2.4)
lxde-common (0.5.5) 0.5.5 0.5.5 0.5.5 0.5.5 -- --                             lxde-common (0.5.5)
MesaLib (7.11.2) 7.11.2 7.11.2 7.11.2 7.11 7.10.1 7.5.1                             MesaLib (7.11.2)
module-init-tools (3.16) 3.16 3.16 3.16 3.16 3.12 3.5 3.4 3.2.2 3.2.2 3.2.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0             module-init-tools (3.16)
mysql (5.5.20) 5.5.20 5.1.56 5.1.59 5.1.58 5.1.53 5.0.84 5.0.54 5.0.38 4.1.21 4.1.14 4.0.24 4.0.24 4.0.22 4.0.20 4.0.18 4.0.16 4.0.13 3.23.49 3.23.49 -- mysql (5.5.20)
nautilus (3.2.1) 3.2.1 2.32.2.1 3.2.1 3.0.2 2.32.2.1 2.26.4 2.20.0 2.16.3 2.14.1 2.12.2 2.10.1 2.8.2 2.8.0 2.6.0 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.2.4 1.0.6 1.0.6 -- nautilus (3.2.1)
NVIDIA (290.10) 290.10 290.10 -- -- -- -- -- 1.0-8776                         NVIDIA (290.10)
openbox (3.5.0) 3.5.0pre 3.5.0 3.5.0 3.5.0 3.4.11.2 3.4.7.2                             openbox (3.5.0)
openssh (5.9p1) 5.9p1 5.8p1 5.9p1 5.8p2 5.8p1 5.2p1 4.7p1 4.5p1 4.3p2 4.2p1 3.9p1 3.9p1 3.8.1p1 3.8.1p1 3.8p1 3.7.1p2 3.6.1p2 3.1p1 3.1p1 3.1p1 openssh (5.9p1)
openssl (1.0.0g) 1.0.0g 1.0.0g 1.0.0e 1.0.0d 1.0.0d 0.9.8k 0.9.8g 0.9.8d 0.9.7j 0.9.7i 0.9.7e 0.9.7e 0.9.7d 0.9.7d 0.9.7d 0.9.7c 0.9.6j 0.9.6c 0.9.6c 0.9.6c openssl (1.0.0g)
perl (5.14.2) 5.14.2 5.12.4 5.12.4 5.12.4 5.12.3 5.8.8 5.8.8 5.8.8 5.8.8 5.8.7 5.8.6 5.8.5 5.8.4 5.8.4 5.8.2 5.8.2 5.8.0 5.6.1 5.6.1 5.6.1 perl (5.14.2)
php (5.3.10) 5.4.0rc7 5.3.9 -- -- -- -- 5.2.6rc4 5.2.2 5.1.4 5.0.5 4.4.0 4.3.10 4.3.9 4.3.8 4.3.4 4.3.4 4.3.2 4.2.0 4.1.2 -- php (5.3.10)
pidgin (2.10.1) 2.10.1 2.10.1 2.10.1 2.9.0 2.7.10 2.5.9 2.4.3 1.5.0 1.5.0 1.5.0 1.4.0 1.1.4 1.0.2 0.79 0.75 0.75 0.66 0.57 0.55 -- pidgin (2.10.1)
postfix (2.9.0) 2.10pre 2.8.7 -- -- -- 2.5.9 2.4.6 2.3.6 2.2.10 2.2.5 2.1.5 2.1.5 2.1.5 2.0.19 2.0.19 2.0.16 2.0.11 1.1.7 1.1.6 -- postfix (2.9.0)
postgresql (9.1.2) 9.1.2 9.1.1 -- -- -- -- 8.0.15 8.0.13 8.0.8 8.0.7 8.0.3 7.4.7 7.4.6 7.4.3 7.3.6 7.3.5 7.3.3 7.2 7.2 -- postgresql (9.1.2)
Python (3.2.2) 3.2.2 3.1.4 3.2.2 3.2 3.1.3 2.6.2 2.4.4 2.4.4 2.4.3 2.3.5 2.3.5 2.3.4 2.3.4 2.3.3 2.3.3 2.3.3 2.2.3 2.2.1 2.2 2.2 Python (3.2.2)
qt (4.8.0) 4.8.0 4.7.4 4.7.4 4.7.3 4.7.1 4.5.2 3.3.8 4.2.3 4.1.4 3.3.4 3.3.4 3.3.4 3.3.3 3.3.2 3.3.1 3.3.0 3.1.2 3.0.3 3.0.3 -- qt (4.8.0)
samba (3.6.3) 4.0.0alpha17 3.5.11 3.6.1 3.6.0rc3 3.5.6 3.0.33 3.0.28a 3.0.24 3.0.22 3.0.14a 3.0.14a 3.0.10 3.0.8 3.0.5 3.0.2a 3.0.1 2.2.8a 2.2.4 2.2.3a -- samba (3.6.3)
thunderbird (10.0) 9.0 9.0 8.0 5.0 3.1.7 2.0.0.23 2.0.0.14 1.5.0.10 1.5.0.5 1.0.7 1.0.6 1.0.2 0.8 0.6             thunderbird (10.0)
udev (180) 180 164 171 171 164 141 119 104 090 079 058                   udev (180)
vim (7.3) 7.3 7.3 7.3 7.3 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 7.0 6.4 6.3 6.3 6.3 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.1 6.1 -- vim (7.3)
vlc (1.1.13) 2.0.0rc1 1.1.13 1.1.13 1.1.11 1.1.7 1.0.2 0.8.6g 0.8.6 0.8.4a 0.8.4 0.8.1                   vlc (1.1.13)
xfdesktop (4.8.3) 4.8.3 4.8.1 4.8.3 4.8.2 4.8 4.6.1 4.4.2 4.4.0 4.2.3.2 4.2.2 4.2.2 4.2.0 4.0.6 4.0.5 3.8.18 3.8.18 3.8.18 3.8.16 3.8.14 -- xfdesktop (4.8.3)
xine-lib (1.2.1) 1.2.1 1.1.20 1.1.20 1.1.19 1.1.19 1.1.16.3 1.1.11.1 1.1.4 1.1.2 1.1.1 1.0.1 1-rc8 1-rc6 1-rc4 1-rc3 1-rc3 1-beta12 0.9.9 0.9.8 -- xine-lib (1.2.1)
xorg-server (1.11.4) 1.11.99.902 1.11.2 1.10.4 1.10.3 1.10.0 1.6.3.901 1.3.0.0 (7.2) (7.1) (6.8.2) (6.8.2) (6.8.2) (6.8.0) (6.7.0) -- -- -- -- -- -- xorg-server (1.11.4)
xz (5.0.3) 5.0.3 5.0.3 5.0.3 5.0.3 5.0.1 4.999.9                             xz (5.0.3)


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