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Urgent - OSU Open Source Lab needs your help (Apr 30, 2025)

OSL logo Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab (OSL) has been a major supporter of Gentoo Linux and many other software projects for years. It is currently hosting several of our infrastructure servers as well as development machines for exotic architectures, and is critical for Gentoo operation.

Due to drops in sponsor contributions, OSL has been operating at loss for a while, with the OSU College of Engineering picking up the rest of the bill. Now, university funding has been cut, this is not possible anymore, and unless US$ 250.000 can be provided within the next two weeks OSL will have to shut down. The details can be found in a blog post of Lance Albertson, the director of OSL.

Please, if you value and use Gentoo Linux or any of the other projects that OSL has been supporting, and if you are in a position to make funds available, if this is true for the company you work for, etc … contact the address in the blog post. Obviously, long-term corporate sponsorships would here serve best - for what it’s worth, OSL developers have ended up at almost every big US tech corporation by now. Right now probably everything helps though.

Bootable Gentoo QCOW2 disk images - ready for the cloud! (Feb 20, 2025)

Larry the Qcow2 We are very happy to announce new official downloads on our website and our mirrors: Gentoo for amd64 (x86-64) and arm64 (aarch64), as immediately bootable disk images in qemu’s QCOW2 format! The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console (“no root pw”), or with network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init running on boot (“cloud-init”). Enjoy, and read on for more!

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

dev-python/vector Vector classes and utilities
dev-python/awkward Manipulate JSON-like data with NumPy-like idioms
dev-python/awkward-cpp CPU kernels and compiled extensions for Awkward Array
dev-libs/cusparselt A High-Performance CUDA Library for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
gui-apps/input-leap Share a mouse and keyboard between computers (fork of Barrier)

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Sway/es started by Megido
Libvirt/libvirtd started by Egberts
FrOSCon 2025 started by Ulm
HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 14-fh0645nd started by Rafspiny
GNOME/Keyring started by Paveloom