Coming up in this episode

• Do you think Larry uses Firefox?


• The Compiled History of Gentoo


• and How we emerged from the year long journey

0:00 Cold Open

2:44 Mozilla Watch!

24:59 Gentoo - The Early Years

30:30 Gentoo - 1.0 And Beyond

35:20 Gentoo - 2007 to 2014

39:56 Gentoo - 2015 to the Present

45:37 The ENTIRE Gentoo Journey

1:20:49 Next Season?

1:24:52 Stinger

The Video Version!

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Mozilla Watch

• Mozilla recently announced some planned improvements.

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The History of Gentoo

• Stampede Linux


• When a system emerged, it was called Enoch


• Making a Distro part 2


• Sustainability of the project had made its way to the forefront.


• Gentoo website ~August 2001


• March 3 2002 public facing movement was easily spotted.


• March 31 2002, 1.0 was finally released!


• The huge influx of new users it encouraged caused bandwidth issues for Gentoo.


• August of 2003, 1.4 was released.


• Full installation could be completed in under an hour!


• 2004, marked a change from the dot releases.


• 2004.0 released February 28, 2004.


• Daniel Robbins, the creator and founder, resigns from Gentoo.


• Despite that work continued. 2004.1 was released shortly after that news, dot 2 in July and dot 3 in November.


• September 2005, the first Gentoo Council was elected.


• Daniel Robbins makes his glorious return to the project!


• This lasted about 8 days before he resigned again.


• Other developers joined Robbins.


• Stability questions around the stability of the Gentoo Project


• October 2009, a LiveDVD release.


• 11.0, released in 2011.


• In 2015 A new website was announced! After the air was cleared, an actual NEW website.


• In 2016, Gentoo Choice Edition. Then in July, Choice Edition Part Dos.


• word crimes


• In 2017, 17.0 in November and an experimental 17.1 in December.


• An issue on Github in 2018.


• 2019 saw the 17.1 profiles finally stabilize.


• In 2021, the addition of 20.0 profiles were released.


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• Precompiled binaries for more packages were announced.


• March of 2024, profile version 23.0.


• Michał Górny notes in his blog a few days before recording here that Gentoo has a problem.

Some Gentoo Quicklinks

• Main Gentoo Website


• Gentoo Handbook


• Gentoo Wiki


• Gentoo Forums


• Gentoo Developers


• Gentoo Bugtracker


• Gentoo Packages

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