Project developers Gentoo announced about resuming the formation live- Conditions , allowing users not only to evaluate the status of the project and demonstrate the features of the distribution without the need to install on the disk, but also use the environment as a portable workstation or tool For system administrator. Live builds will be updated weekly to provide access to current versions of applications. Assembly are available for AMD64 architecture, they have the size of 4.7 GB and fit for installation on DVD and USB drives.
The user environment is based on the KDE Plasma desktop and includes a large Selection both application programs and tools for system administrators and specialists. For example, the composition includes:
- Office Applications: LibreOffice, Lyx, Texstudio, Xournalpp, Kile;
- Browsers: Firefox, Chromium;
- Chat rooms: Irssi, Weechat;
- Text Editors: Emacs, Vim, Kate, Nano, Joe;
- Developer Packages: Git, Subversion, GCC, Python, Perl;
- Work with graphics: Inkscape, Gimp, Povray, Luminance HDR, Digikam;
- Video Editing: Kdenlive;
- Disc Works: HDDTEMP, Testdisk, HDPARM, NVME-CLI, Gparted, Partimage, Btrfs-Progs, Ddrescue, Dosfstools, E2fsprogs, ZFS;
- Network Utilities: NMAP, TCPDUMP, Traceroute, Minicom, PptpClient, Bind-Tools, Cifs-Utils, NFS-Utils, FTP, Chrony, NTP, OpenSsh, Rdesktop, OpenFortivPN, OpenVPN, Tor;
- Backup: MT-ST, FSARCHIVER;
- Packages for Measuring Performance: Bonnie, Bonnie ++, Dbench, Iozone, Stress, Tiobench.
To give the surroundings of a recognizable appearance among users, a competition for the development of visual style, the design, boot animation and wallpaper desktop are launched. Registration should identify the Gentoo project and may include logo distribution or existing Design elements . The work should provide a holistic design, distributed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, approach to use in various screen resolutions and be adapted for delivery in Live-image.