The developers of the Gentoo project announced the resumption of the formation of Live builds, allowing users not only to evaluate the state of the project and demonstrate the capabilities of the distribution kit without having to install it on disk, but also to use the environment as a portable workstation or a tool for the system administrator. Live builds will be updated weekly to provide access to the latest versions of applications. The assemblies are available for the amd64 architecture, are 4.7 GB in size and are suitable for installation on DVD and USB drives.
The user environment is based on the KDE Plasma desktop and includes a large selection of both applications and tools for system administrators and specialists. For example, the composition includes:
- Office applications: LibreOffice, LyX, TeXstudio, XournalPP, kile;
- Browsers: Firefox, Chromium;
- Chats: irssi, weechat;
- Text editors: Emacs, vim, kate, nano, joe;
- Developer packages: git, subversion, gcc, Python, Perl;
- Graphics: Inkscape, Gimp, Povray, Luminance HDR, Digikam;
- Video editing: KDEnlive;
- Working with disks: hddtemp, testdisk, hdparm, nvme-cli, gparted, partimage, btrfs-progs, ddrescue, dosfstools, e2fsprogs, zfs;
- Network utilities: nmap, tcpdump, traceroute, minicom, pptpclient, bind-tools, cifs-utils, nfs-utils, ftp, chrony, ntp, openssh, rdesktop, openfortivpn, openvpn, tor;
- Backup: mt-st, fsarchiver;
- Performance measurement packages: bonnie, bonnie++, dbench, iozone, stress, tiobench.
To give the environment a recognizable appearance, a competition has been launched among users to develop a visual style, design themes, boot animations and desktop wallpapers. The design must identify the Gentoo project and may include the distribution's logo or existing design elements. The work must provide a consistent design, be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, be suitable for use in various screen resolutions, and be adapted for delivery in a live image.
Source: opennet.ru