Episode 4:20: The Ultimate Linux Experience!

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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!
https://youtu.be/bsPV79bgU4c

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.
• Genchu
  • Wallpaper1 Wallpaper2 Wallpaper3 Wallpaper4
• 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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