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The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade (Apr 2, 2026)

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It’s taken a lot of time, but we have finally made the big step to upgrade our Gentoo Forums to phpBB3. You will notice a few differences between phpBB2 and today:

  • It’s definitely not Discourse.
  • Everyone must change their password at first login, just to freshen them up.
  • Reports are more private-like now, but we may get the old public reporting topic back later.

Discussion and feedback are welcome on the ‘The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade’ discussion thread.

Gentoo GNU/Hurd (Apr 1, 2026)

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We are proud to announce a new port of Gentoo to GNU Hurd! Our crack team has been working hard to port Gentoo to the Hurd and can now share that they’ve succeeded, though it remains still in a heavily experimental stage. You can try Gentoo GNU/Hurd using a pre-prepared disk image. The easiest way to do this is with QEMU:

$ wget https://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/hurd/hurd-i686-preview.qcow2.sig
$ wget https://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/hurd/hurd-i686-preview.qcow2
$ gpg --verify hurd-i686-preview.qcow2.sig hurd-i686-preview.qcow2
$ qemu-system-i386 -drive file=hurd-i686-preview.qcow2,format=qcow2 -m 2G -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:2222 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci --enable-kvm -M q35

To log in, input login root, then use gnuhurdrox as the password. Upon logging in, you can run ./setup-net.sh and /etc/init.d/sshd restart to get SSH. Connect via ssh -p 2222 root@127.0.0.1 on your host.

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

www-client/opera-gx Opera, but for 'gamers'
dev-ruby/phlex A framework for building object-oriented views in Ruby
dev-ruby/bicho ruby Bugzilla access library
dev-ruby/inifile Native Ruby package for reading and writing INI files
acct-user/vinyl user for vinyl-cache

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

PPC/FAQ/it started by Fra.sa
FrOSCon 2026 started by Jstein
S6/examples started by Flexibeast
LTO/LTO profile started by Ris
Warning about insecure obsolete network hardware started by Ris