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Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small (50KB), powerful,
and really fast Web server for Linux. It uses a
hybrid networking model based on epoll and
threads, which makes it scalable and capable of
attending thousands of clients per second.
Changes: Bugs in the Makefile concerning make install were
fixed. The "pipe broken" message is now sent to
error.log. Bugs in the configure script were
fixed.
Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast Linux
distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, and Sparc64
that’s geared towards Linux power users. Unlike
other distros, it has an advanced package
management system called Portage. Portage is a
true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports,
but is Python-based and sports a number of
advanced features including dependencies,
fine-grained package management, "fake"
(OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe
unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages,
config file management, and more.
Changes: Important pam/shadow/util-linux security fixes, new KDE3 ebuilds, Portage improvements (true safe library upgrades and copying files to live fs now an order of magnitude faster), new NVIDIA drivers and new seamless OpenGL/Mesa configuration system. Also, PPPoE support is on the install CDs.
Release Tags: Major feature enhancements
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast Linux
distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, and Sparc64
that’s geared towards Linux power users. Unlike
other distros, it has an advanced package
management system called Portage. Portage is a
true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports,
but is Python-based and sports a number of
advanced features including dependencies,
fine-grained package management, "fake"
(OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe
unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages,
config file management, and more.
Changes: This release has glibc-2.2.5, a new version of Portage with major performance improvements, dynamic "world" profiles, countless other additions, and the latest and greatest port-based packages: 1389 complete packages at last count. Pre-built i686+ base system tarballs and install CDs are available for download.
Release Tags: Major feature enhancements
