From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   De Vliegende Hollander wrote:   
      
   > The sentient life form Aragorn posted the following:   
   >   
   >> Arthur Hagen wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> singsingchow  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It's 2008 now.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm sure they'll let you know in the GWN (Gentoo Weekly Newsletter)...   
   >>   
   >> I'm afraid there hasn't been any GWN anymore since October 15th 2007, nor   
   >> has the news section of the Gentoo website been updated since. :-/   
   >   
   > Worrying that is! Hope not a prelude to 'The End Of Gentoo' ®, this is...   
      
   I did indeed find this inactivity worrying, particularly as I'm about to   
   install a machine worth USD $~20'000/€~16'000 with Gentoo, spread out as   
   individually customized installations in virtual machines on top of the Xen   
   hypervisor (including the /dom0/ virtual machine)...   
      
   Now I'm aware of the fact that there have been some difficulties at the   
   Gentoo website late last year regarding the forum and such, but I found it   
   strange that I suddenly didn't get any weekly newsletters anymore, and that   
   the website apparently didn't get updated anymore either - /apparently,/   
   because the documentation section did get updated with an albeit brief   
   HowTo on /Xen,/ although I'm not excluding the possibility that the /Xen/   
   HowTo was already there before and that I had previously simply overlooked   
   its presence. :-/   
      
   Additionally, the AMD64 distribution - which is the one I'm interested in -   
   is still at the 2007.0 release, and thus I would have expected a 2007.1 or   
   a 2008.0 anytime soon now.  I believe that a post elsewhere - it may have   
   been in this newsgroup or it may have been on some website - suggested that   
   Daniel Robbins still considers the current 2007.0 to be up to date for   
   AMD64 - according to the same post, there should already be images of   
   2007.1 for 32-bit x86 available, but I cannot corroborate this as I haven't   
   checked - and it may indeed be so, but then again it's been some time since   
   the GWN spoke of the upcoming new baselayout, which I believe was scheduled   
   to feature /initng./   
      
   Still, the packages for the "stable" repositories all still seem to be   
   maintained up to a pretty actual level, and the forum does still see its   
   usual load of GLSA posts.  On the other hand however, the Live CD I've   
   downloaded not too long ago still has an older kernel on it - 2.6.18, I   
   think - so apparently it's been a while again since they've updated those   
   images.   
      
   It's puzzling, and I wish they'd at least put a message up on their website   
   to let us know why it's not being updated anymore, or whether we're to   
   expect a discontinuation of Gentoo as a distribution... :-/   
      
   Maybe they're just going the Slackware/Debian way and only release the newer   
   stuff after it's been out in the field for 5 years already?    
   (Slackware still labels the 2.6 kernel generation as   
   "unstable/testing"... ;-))   
      
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