Announcing the launch of three major efforts: Gentoo Linux 2004, Portage-ng and catalyst. Starting with the next release of Gentoo Linux (Gentoo Linux 2004,) Gentoo Linux will move to a quarterly release schedule. More info is available in the Roadmap for Gentoo Linux 2004.

In addition, we're pleased to announce the start of development on "portage-ng," the successor to the ever-popular portage package manager. Learn more at our Portage project page and our in-progress architecture specification document for Portage-ng development. Portage-ng will be a true community effort, and we encourage you to get involved.

And then there's catalyst. Starting with Gentoo Linux 2004, all releases (including LiveCDs) will be fully user-rebuildable using our new catalyst build technology. Using catalyst, Gentoo users will be able to easily create their own customized Gentoo releases, LiveCDs, GameCDs -- you name it. The current development version of catalyst supports building stages and GRP sets on AMD64 (both 64-bit and 32-bit x86), x86 and PowerPC. LiveCD/GameCD building will be released by the end of the year. Keep up-to-date on catalyst by visiting our (currently sparse) catalyst project pages. Enjoy!