The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors.
Gentoo in 2025 moved away from GitHub to the Forgejo-based Codeberg in order to avoid Microsoft Copilot usage of their repositories. On the financial front, Gentoo moved their financial structure over to Software in the Public Interface (SPI).
I absolutely love Gentoo. However, while 20 years ago it made sense to compile your own kernel, I don’t see the advantage today. What is todays Use Case for Gentoo? Why should anyone use it?
I know, it is a cool distro and as a user you learn a lot about BSD. Just asking because I fail to recommend or use Gentoo nowadays for a valid reason.
Today, it’s a toolbox to create your own distro.
ChromeOS was made with Gentoo, for example.I didn’t know that! That’s cool!
Wow, that is so sad. So these people acomplised many incredible things this year and got to see only a fraction of a salary!? The state of open-source development… Anyway, please donate in you use Gentoo
Gentoo is volunteer-run. The people doing all this work don’t expect any money. Rare in this day and age, I know. If you check the actual report, it’ll tell you where the money went (mostly hosting).
Thanks for the info! That is rare, for sure
That wallpaper, so nostalgic.It’s not about the money but showing who’s boss.
