The History of Gentoo Linux

All the way back to the 90’s, when Debian and Slackware reigned supreme, follow along as Gentoo Linux *emerges* — all the way up to about a couple of weeks ago!

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Stampede Linux
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2937
When a system emerged, it was called Enoch
https://web.archive.org/web/20051126223839/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p1.xml
Making a Distro part 2
https://web.archive.org/web/20051118195918/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p2.xml
Sustainability of the project had made its way to the forefront
https://web.archive.org/web/20051126225230/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p3.xml
Gentoo website ~August 2001
https://web.archive.org/web/20010924064822/http://gentoo.org:80/
March 3 2002 public facing movement was easily spotted
https://web.archive.org/web/20020328041905/http://www.gentoo.org/
March 31 2002, 1.0 was finally released!
https://web.archive.org/web/20020604061411/http://gentoo.org/news/20020331-gentoo.html
The huge influx of new users it encouraged caused bandwidth issues for Gentoo
https://web.archive.org/web/20020604025327/http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-announce/2002-May/000161.html
August of 2003, 1.4 was released
https://web.archive.org/web/20031207075713/http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030811-newsletter.xml
Full installation could be completed in under an hour!
https://forums.gentoo.org/posting.php?mode=quote&p=110077&sid=55086929168089cbbb9dcdac1cec05ec
2004, marked a change from the dot releases
https://web.archive.org/web/20031204134123/http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/index.xml
2004.0 released February 28, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040610161340/http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.0/releng/2004.0-press-release.txt
Daniel Robbins, the creator and founder, resigns from Gentoo
https://web.archive.org/web/20040501110844/http://www.gentoo.org/news/20040426-drobbins.xml
2004.1 was released shortly after that news, dot 2 in July and dot 3 in November
https://web.archive.org/web/20141224104108/http://www.gentoo.org//proj/en/releng/release/2004.2/2004.2-press-release.txt
September 2005, the first Gentoo Council was elected
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council
Daniel Robbins makes his glorious return to the project!
https://lwn.net/Articles/224082/
This lasted about 8 days before he resigned again
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070312#future
Other developers joined Robbins
https://www.linux.com/news/gentoo-attempts-deal-developer-conflicts/
Stability questions around the stability of the Gentoo Project

October 2009, a LiveDVD release
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222231552/https://www.gentoo.org/news/20091004-gentoo-10-years.xml
11.0, released in 2011
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222015352/http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110308-livedvd.xml
In 2015 A new website was announced! After the air was cleared, an actual NEW website
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2015/03/31/website-update.html#old-april-fools-day-announcement

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0:00 The Early Years
5:40 1.0 and Beyond
10:20 2007 to 2014
15:21 2015 to the Present

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