From: user@example.net   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
      
   > 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)...   
      
   You should be able to switch to Sabayon with a little work, in case Gentoo   
   would come to an end.   
      
      
   > 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,   
      
   There been a lot of trouble with the weekly newsletter this year, sometimes   
   it's just been a biweekly and other times it haven't been published for a   
   month or so, the real problem has been that they haven't had any writer who   
   had the time to write one, so it has had a quite low priority.   
      
      
   > 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. :-/   
      
   Take a look at the Gentoo wiki too, there is a lot of useful documentation.   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   It may have been better they just used a "version number", then people would   
   expect less, there hasn't happen that much that would require a new profile,   
   even the jump in minor version of the glibc went painlessly without any need   
   of a new profile.   
      
      
   > there should already be images of   
   > 2007.1 for 32-bit x86 available, but I cannot corroborate this as I haven't   
   > checked   
      
   You need to use one of the "experimental" portage setups, it's not in the   
   default one.   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   They don't make new image on each released kernel, and it's not needed, it   
   requires a lot to make a machine not to boot the .18 kernel.   
      
   There is a lot people working, just visit the IRC channels if you need   
   something like 2007.1/2008.0 and kernel 2.6.24 on your installation media,so   
   they can have a laugh or two ;)   
      
      
   > 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"... ;-))   
      
   Gentoo never been that much whats on the install media, you could even go with   
   a Gentoo 1.4 and make an up to date install, try to take a "Debian 2" or   
   "RedHat 6.2" install CDs and install the latest version.   
      
      
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     //Aho   
      
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