1.  Release Information

Descriptions, release notes, roadmaps, sub-projects and a list of the Gentoo Developers who work on the Gentoo release media can all be found on our Release Engineering Project page.

Please consult our Gentoo Handbooks for more information on what to download and how to install Gentoo.

Downloading Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux is available free over the Internet. You can download Gentoo Linux from the appropriate iso and architecture link below.

Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD and Stages

Our Release Engineering team provides new minimal install CDs and stages on a weekly basis. You can find these releases on any of our mirrors in /releases/<arch>/current-iso/ or /releases/<arch>/current-stage3/. Not every architecture is updated on the same day. Not all architectures release CD images.

Since these releases are built automatically by Release Engineering servers, there is some chance that a stage or CD may not be produced for a given week. When this happens, just use the latest CD and stage available. More releases are available on our mirrors in /releases/<arch>/autobuilds/. Use this directory if there isn't anything recent enough in current-iso/ or current-stage3/.

alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc s390 sh sparc x86

If you prefer to select a local mirror yourself, they are listed at www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml.

Please consult our Gentoo Handbooks for more information on what to download and how to install Gentoo.

Gentoo 10.1

LiveDVD (released Oct 10, 2009)
(up to 2.6 gigabytes depending on arch)
amd64 x86

Gentoo 2008.0

Universal Install CD
(up to 600 megabytes depending on arch)
hppa ppc/ppc64 sparc64

Package CD
(up to 640 megabytes depending on arch)
sparc64

Gentoo DVD's and CD's

If you simply don't have the ability to download the large DVD or CD images, then you may wish to purchase a Gentoo DVD or CD.