Gentoo Base release 2.1

Gentoo Base release 2.1 is a kernel. The Gentoo Base release 2.1 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

OpenBenchmarking.org Results

Global Results

Test-2.6.36 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.14, AMD Phenom II X4 905e, R600, ASUS M4A78T-E

Test-2.6.36 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.14, AMD Phenom II X4 905e, R600, ASUS M4A78T-E

Server-2.6.30 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.14, AMD Phenom II X4 905e, R600, ASUS M4A78T-E

7zip-test1 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Pentium T4400, R600, SAMSUNG R518

xplane_i7_950_LG - Tests on MandrivaLinux 2010.1, Gentoo Base System 1.12.14, Intel Core i7 950, GeForce GTX 470, Gigabyte X58A-UD5, AMD Phenom II X4 940, 896MB, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4

Dual Opteron 6128 7-zip - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Ubuntu 10.04, AMD Opteron 6128, GeForce GTS 250, ASUS KGP, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, NVIDIA G92, MSI 890FXA-GD70

crafty_101017 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Core i7 Q 720, NVIDIA Device 0a28, HP HP Pavilion dv8 Notebook PC, AMD Athlon II M300, ATI M880G, Acer Aspire 4540

jackg-2583-25302-31935 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Intel Core 2 Quad, Software Rasterizer, Dell 0DN075

xplane - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, AMD Phenom II X4 940, 896MB, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4

jcpHeaven1680 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, AMD Phenom II X4 940, 896MB, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4

x264 dual Opteron 6128 - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, AMD Opteron 6128, GeForce GTS 250, ASUS KGP

Dual Opteron 6128 7-zip - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, AMD Opteron 6128, GeForce GTS 250, ASUS KGP

Storage - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Intel Xeon X3450, Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Supermicro X8SIL v0123456789

Storage - Tests on Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, Intel Xeon X3450, Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Supermicro X8SIL v0123456789

Phoronix Information

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 13 Released: Calculate Linux, one of the nice distributions out there based upon Gentoo, is out with their version 13 release...

Gentoo Announces Eudev Project -- Its Udev Fork: Back in mid-November I wrote about Gentoo developers looking at forking udev after being unhappy with its direction under systemd leadership. The Gentoo project has now announced eudev as their fork...

Gentoo Developers Unhappy, Fork udev: The udev code-base has been forked by Gentoo Linux developers after they -- and other parties -- have been unhappy with the future direction of udev as set by systemd developers...

Gentoo 12.1 Released With ZFS Support: Coming out of the Gentoo camp is the Gentoo Linux 12.1 LiveDVD release with several new features...

Gentoo Linux 12.0 LiveDVD Released: The Gentoo project has pout out version 12.0 of their pre-spun LiveDVD for those looking to give this decade-old distribution a shot...

Gentoo Releases New LiveDVD (Gentoo 11.2): Gentoo Linux "The future is now" has been released, which is the Gentoo 11.2 LiveDVD...

Gentoo Linux 11.0 LiveDVD Released: While stable, tagged releases really aren't important to Gentoo users due to its rolling-release model, a Gentoo 11.0 LiveDVD was released today by its developers...

Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD Brings Fixes & Enhancements: In celebration of Gentoo's 10th birthday, the Gentoo engineering team banded together and created the Gentoo 10 LiveDVD of the latest packages for this rolling Linux distribution. Less than a month after releasing Gentoo 10.0, the Gentoo Ten team has released Gentoo 10.1...

Gentoo Cancels 2008.1, Plans New Future: There was no Gentoo 2007.1 release that made it out last year, and we now know for sure that there will be no Gentoo 2008.1 release this year. The Gentoo Release Engineering Team has canceled the Gentoo 2008.1 release that would have otherwise been expected in the next three months.

Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Released: While delayed, Gentoo 2007.0 has finally made it out the door this afternoon. The codename for Gentoo 2007.0 is "secret sauce" and some of its features include a completely rewritten installer, GNOME 2.16.2, and many more package updates. More information is available in the release announcement.

Gentoo Announces Seeds: A new Gentoo project has been announced that has been called 'Seeds'. Gentoo Seeds will provide Stage 4 tarballs of common setups to 'seed' new systems with pre-built Gentoo packages. Their first seed is for creating a LAMP server. Here is the mailing list announcement, and the project page.

Gentoo 2006.1 Released: The Gentoo release engineering team has today launched Gentoo 2006.1. Featured in Gentoo 2006.1 is GCC 4.1, a network-less install mode, SPARC improvements, improved system startup scripts, and more. The Gentoo 2006.1 press release can be read here.