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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
Doug Goldstein cardoe Developer ( nVidia/ATI drivers )
Tony Vroon chainsaw Developer
Patrick McLean chutzpah Developer ( GNOME )
Dawid Węgliński cla Developer
Marcus D. Hanwell cryos Developer
Daniel Gryniewicz dang Developer ( GNOME )
Jeremy Olexa darkside Developer
Thomas Anderson gentoofan23 Developer
Kenneth Prugh ken69267 Developer
Markus Meier maekke Developer
Peter Volkov pva 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, cardoe, chainsaw, chutzpah, cla, cryos, dang, darkside, gentoofan23, hparker, ken69267, keytoaster, kingtaco, maekke, pva, 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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