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

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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.

KDE Plasma 6 upgrade for stable Gentoo Linux (Aug 31, 2024)

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Exciting news for stable Gentoo users: It’s time for the upgrade to the new “megaversion” of the KDE community desktop environment, KDE Plasma 6! Together with KDE Gear 24.05.2, where now most of the applications have been ported, and KDE Frameworks 6.5.0, the underlying library architecture, KDE Plasma 6.1.4 will be stabilized over the next days. The base libraries of Qt 6 are already available.

More technical information on the upgrade, which should be fairly seamless, as well as architecture-specific notes can be found in a repository news item. Enjoy!

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

Intel microcode/zh-cn started by Df1050
Intel/zh-cn started by Df1050
NVIDIA/zh-cn started by Df1050
Lenovo ThinkPad X280 started by Ishioka
Profile set (Portage) started by Navi