The Gentoo Linux 1.4 release is planned for some time in late December
2002. Thanks to our first corporate sponsorship, I'm now able to work on
Gentoo Linux full-time. Right now, I'm catching up on a big back-log of work
like our transition to a new server infrastructure, which included a move to a
new mailing list manager (apologies for the bumpy ride, searchable mailing list
archives will be online soon) and new
Recent developments in the Gentoo Linux world include the addition of "fakeroot" (non-root building) to Portage by J. Robert Ray, as well as continued expert maintenance and development of Portage by Nick Jones. Stefan Jones (unrelated to Nick, as far as we know :) is spearheading an effort to add flexible and safe library prelinking support to Gentoo Linux, which will likely be an option for Gentoo Linux 1.4. In addition, Dan Armak and the KDE team are getting ready for KDE 3.1, and it looks like 3.1 may be included in Gentoo Linux 1.4 as well. On the "future plans" front, there is discussion about using XML for our ebuild ChangeLogs, as well as plans to get Gentoo Linux Security Announcements available on the Web site.
On the articles front,