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Arm Ltd. provides fast Ampere Altra Max server for Gentoo (Oct 7, 2024)

Arm Ltd. logo

We’re very happy to announce that Arm Ltd. and specifically its Works on Arm team has sent us a fast Ampere Altra Max server to support Gentoo development. With 96 Armv8.2+ 64bit cores, 256 GByte of RAM, and 4 TByte NVMe storage, it is now hosted together with some of our other hardware at OSU Open Source Lab. The machine will be a clear boost to our future arm64 (aarch64) and arm (32bit) support, via installation stage builds and binary packages, architecture testing of Gentoo packages, as well as our close work with upstream projects such as GCC and glibc. Thank you!

Much improved MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo Linux (Sep 11, 2024)

MIPS and Alpha logos

Over the last years, MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo has been slowing down, mostly due to a lack of volunteers keeping these architectures alive. Not anymore however! We’re happy to announce that thanks to renewed volunteer interest both arches have returned to the forefront of Gentoo Linux development, with a consistent dependency tree checked and enforced by our continuous integration system. Up-to-date stage builds and the accompanying binary packages are available for both, in the case of MIPS for all three ABI variants o32, n32, and n64 and for both big and little endian, and in the case of Alpha also with a bootable installation CD.

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

dev-ruby/ostruct Class to build custom data structures, similar to a Hash
dev-db/recutils Tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases
dev-build/kas Setup tool for bitbake based projects
dev-perl/Data-Section-Simple Read data out of the DATA section
dev-perl/GraphViz2 A wrapper for AT&T's GraphViz

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

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