Operating systems

Gentoo Foundation

A flexible, source-based Linux distribution.

Technologies
CC++linuxPythonShell
Topics
automationembeddedinitoperating systemspackagesecurity
Total projects
25
Years participating
8
Most recent
2023

Participation history

8 program years
Projects by participation year 2016: 5 projects, 2017: 3 projects, 2018: 2 projects, 2019: 2 projects, 2020: 4 projects, 2021: 2 projects, 2022: 4 projects, 2023: 3 projects 5 2016 3 2017 2 2018 2 2019 4 2020 2 2021 4 2022 3 2023

Historical projects

2023 3 projects

Official GSoC page ↗

Bootstapping Gentoo with The LLVM C Library

Contributor: Catcream

The goal of this project is to get a Gentoo Linux system running with LLVM libc in fullbuild mode as the system libc. The biggest hurdle here will be...

Automated Gentoo System Updater

Contributor: LabBrat

The project is about creating a tool that automatically updates Gentoo Linux. It will handle errors and send upgrade reports containing news and...

Modern C porting of Gentoo packages

Contributor: listout

Back in 1999, a new revision of the C standard removed several backward compatibility features. However, GCC still accepts these obsolete constructs...