Gentoo Linux是一套通用的、快捷的、完全免费的Linux发行，它面向开发人员和网络职业人员。与其他发行不同的是，Gentoo Linux拥有一套先进的包管理系统叫作Portage。在BSD ports的传统中，Portage是一套真正的自动导入系统，然而Gentoo里的Portage是用Python编写的，并具它有很多先进的特性，包 括文件依赖、精细的包管理、OpenBSD风格的虚拟安装，安全卸载，系统框架文件、虚拟软件包、配置文件管理等等。

The first development build of Gentoo Linux 2008.0 is out and ready for testing: "Whenwe said 'soon,' even we didn't realize how soon it would be.2008.0_beta1 is here. Your support and enthusiasm are greatlyappreciated - thank you. You can help make 2008.0 amazing! Test outthis beta and report any functionality issues you encounter. Since thisis the first beta, we're looking only for bugs in functionality, notbugs in appearance such as desktop backgrounds or other artwork. Weexpect to release a second beta once your testing has helped us fixproblems with this first beta. A migration to RPM was carefullyconsidered again for this release, but in the end we decided to waitfor the few remaining RPM-using distributions to migrate to thesuperior packaging format of ebuilds." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (mirror list) the universal live CDs from here: livecd-i686-installer-2008.0_beta1.iso (655MB), livecd-amd64-installer-2008.0_beta1.iso (701MB).