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Gentoo/AMD64 Project

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1.  Project Description

The Gentoo/AMD64 Project works to make Gentoo the most up to date, fast, robust AMD64 Linux distribution available. Part of this involves coming up with innovative ways to integrate a 32bit compatibility layer into our native 64bit userland without tainting or interleaving the current environment. Our main goal is to provide a stable production-quality release targeted at servers which will be the core use of the Opteron processors.

The AMD line of 64-bit extended processors were released well ahead of Intel's offering. Therefore, for historical reasons the arch keyword for all x86-64 compatible architectures is amd64.

2.  Documentation

The Gentoo/AMD64 project offers the following documentation:

3.  Developers

Developer Nickname Role
Homer Parker hparker Arch Tester Lead
Alex Legler a3li Developer
Steve Dibb beandog Developer
Tony Vroon chainsaw Developer
Patrick McLean chutzpah Developer ( GNOME )
Dawid Węgliński cla Developer
Marcus D. Hanwell cryos Developer
Kenneth Prugh ken69267 Developer
Markus Meier maekke Developer
Romain Perier mrpouet Developer ( GNOME Team liaison )
Peter Volkov pva Developer
Thomas Anderson tanderson Developer
Tiago Cunha tcunha Developer
Olivier Crête tester Developer
Christoph Mende angelos Operational Lead ( Releases )
Tobias Heinlein keytoaster Operational Lead ( Security Team liaison )
Mike Doty kingtaco Strategic Lead ( Kernel, pitr )

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4.  Subprojects

The Gentoo/AMD64 project has the following subprojects:

Project Lead Description
Gentoo/AMD64 ATs The Gentoo/AMD64 AT Project is devoted to help the developers with time-consuming testing.
Release Engineering Danny van Dyk Development and maintenance of the Gentoo/AMD64 Live- and Install-CDs, the installation stages and the related development tools. (Catalyst and Genkernel)

5.  Resources

Resources offered by the Gentoo/AMD64 project are:

6.  Herds

The Gentoo/AMD64 project maintains the following herds:

Herd Members Description
amd64 a3li, angelos, beandog, chainsaw, chutzpah, cla, cryos, hparker, ken69267, keytoaster, kingtaco, maekke, mrpouet, pva, tanderson, tcunha, tester x86_64-specific packages

7.  How to Participate

There are several ways to help the distribution and its community:



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Summary: The Gentoo/AMD64 Project is devoted to providing stable, secure and up-to-date releases of Gentoo for the AMD64 and EM64T processor families.

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