The ppc architecture was introduced by an Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance in 1991 and has 64-bit support since 1997. PowerPC CPUs can operate in two modes: big-endian and little-endian. This is a small bootable ISO image that can be burned on C…
The x86 32-bit architecture was developed by Intel 1985; it has been succeeded by amd64. There are two builds of the x86 architecture: i486 and i686. Processors prior to the Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II require the i486 variant to be use…
The mips architecture was developed originally 1985 by MIPS Computer Systems and has lately been under the purview of MIPS Technology, Loongson, and CIP United. For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems, please see the m…
The arm 32-bit architecture was initially developed 1985 by Acorn Computers and is now part of Arm Holdings portfolio. For details of the various arm subarchitectures, please see the corresponding wikipedia page. Note that in Gentoo arm ref…
The arm64 64-bit architecture, introduced by Arm Holdings in 2011, covers modern Arm processors, from the Raspberry Pi 4 to the Neoverse cores and many mobile phones. This is a small bootable ISO image that can be burned on CD or written on…
The Linux kernel has recently been facing a series of discovered privilege escalation vulnerabilities, starting with the Copy Fail vulnerability and followed by subsequent vulnerabilities in the same spirit (Dirty Frag, Fragnesia). This dev…
The alpha architecture was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and later Compaq 1992-2004. This is a small bootable ISO image that can be burned on CD or written onto USB sticks. It contains system administration tools (for ins…
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: Discussion and feedback are welcome on the ‘The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade’ di…
This turned out to be an April Fool’s post. For the real upgrade announcement see here. The Gentoo Forums are being upgraded for us to be able to leverage the latest in modern bleeding edge technologies. As many of you are no doubt aware, p…
riscv is a free and open standard 64-bit and 32-bit architecture introduced in 2014. rv64 designates 64-bit, rv32 32-bit RISC-V processors. The lp64d stages can be used on all 64-bit processors supporting the double-precision floating point…
The sparc architecture was developed by Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corp. 1986-2017. This is a small bootable ISO image that can be burned on CD or written onto USB sticks. It contains system administration tools (for installing Gentoo), bu…
The s390 architecture is a mainframe architecture introduced by IBM in 1990; it has 64-bit support (also called s390x) since 1997. The Gentoo s390x stages require at least a z10 processor. While our main distribution site https://distfiles.…