| Gentoo v2006.1 touts enhancements, options |
Aug. 30, 2006
 The Gentoo Release Engineering team on Aug. 30 announced Gentoo Linux 2006.1, its second release of the year. GL 2006.1 features a 2.4.32 Linux kernel, and offers a choice of KDE, GNOME, or Xfce desktop environments.
"The 2006.1 release features many highlights that improve upon 2006.0," the Albuquerque, N.M.-based development team said in the release announcement. "The AMD64, HPPA, x86, 32- and 64-bit PowerPC releases are built with and include GCC 4.1, a great improvement over version 3.4 used for 2006.0. Also included are the GNU C library version 2.4 and Gentoo's baselayout 1.12.1, with improved system startup scripts."
The Alpha, x86 and AMD64 versions also feature a new profile layout, with separate sub-profiles for desktop and server systems, the team said. This makes customization much easier, as the profile defaults can be pre-tuned to the type of system being used, the team said.
Gentoo Linux 2006.1 now offers support for the dual-core G5 processor on the PowerPC platform, support for the serial console on Apple Xserve machines, and improved support for installation from a FireWire disk.
Official stages are built for 64- and 32-bit userlands on generic PPC64, and POWER5 and PowerPC 970 (G5) platforms, and GRP packages are available for the latest KDE, GNOME, and XFCE releases on all of these configurations.
Gentoo is loaded with standard features. Here are some of the highlights, as listed by the project team:- OpenOffice.org 2.03 and KOffice 1.5.3 office suites
- MPlayer 1.0pre8 audio player
- GIMP 2.3.10 graphics editor
- Firefox 1.5.0.6 browser
- SendMail 8.13.8 mail client
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 email client
You can download Gentoo Linux 2006.1 from the distro's bouncer system, here, or via BitTorrent, here.
Screenshots, courtesy of OSDir.com, are available here.
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