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Gentoo congratulates our GSoC participants (Sep 7, 2018)

GSOC logo Gentoo would like to congratulate Gibix and JSteward for finishing and passing Google’s Summer of Code for the 2018 calendar year. Gibix contributed by enhancing Rust (programming language) support within Gentoo. JSteward contributed by making a full Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution, managed by Portage, run on devices which use the original Android-customized kernel.

The final reports of their projects can be reviewed on their personal blogs:

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

gst-plugins-cairo Video overlay plugin based on cairo for GStreamer
sshtunnel Pure python SSH tunnels
yarock Qt-based music player
lollypop Modern music player for GNOME
jinja2_pluralize Jinja2 pluralize filters

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Lutris started by Kreyren
Libffi 3.0 porting notes/FFI SYSV started by Slyfox
Lenovo ThinkPad P52 started by Zougloub
Sakaki's EFI Install Guide/Booting Legacy Images on EFI using kexec started by Sakaki
Wtftw started by Kreyren