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An interview with Patryk Rz?dzi?ski, head of IT at OSTC Poland.  from Gentoo Linux News

Global Financial Derivatives trading company, OSTC Poland , uses Gentoo Linux in significant sectors of its IT infrastructure. We spoke with long time Gentoo user and head of OSTC Poland's IT department, Patryk Rz?dzi?ski, to learn more about how and where Gentoo is used. We discovered, as you will read in the full interview , that Gentoo, and more generally open source software, serves well in the commercial world.

Gentoo Ten LiveDVD Testing  from Gentoo Linux News

Attention Gentoo Community, In honor of Gentoo's 10th birthday, we are producing a new livedvd! We needYOU to test it on as many x86 and x86_64 machines as you can and post bugs.Please report your bugs . Feel freeto entertain yourself and fellow Gentoo rock stars on our forum . The livedvd-x86-x86_64 will work on x86 or x86_64. If your arch is x86 bootwith the default gentoo. If your arch is amd64 boot with gentoo64. Thelivedvd-amd64 is for well, amd64 only. UPDATE: Due to demand, we have moved the files onto the regular mirror infrastructure.Please select your archiecture to be redirected to a mirror: x86 amd64 So, give us a hand by testing like crazy AND posting bugs and we'll have thegreatest livedvd ever. Thanks for your continued support, The Gentoo-Ten Project David Abbott contributed to the draft for this announcement.

The Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Donate $500 to the ElectronicFrontier Foundation in honor of  from Gentoo Linux News

All, Many of you have, no doubt, learned of the recent loss to the Gentoocommunity. Known fondly as fmccor, Mr. Ferris E. McCormick's death was tragicand unexpected. His many contributions to the greater open source communitywill always be remembered as well as his generous friendship. It is in duehonor to his life and good name that the Gentoo Foundation has donated a sumof $500 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The board of trusteesbelieve that our donation is reflective of his wishes, given fmccor'sprofessional life as a lawyer, and that this gift will further the movementshe cared a great deal about, open source software and protecting our freedom. The board would like to take this opportunity to encourage any and allindividuals that personally knew fmccor or were benefiting from his life longcontributions to donate, in kind and to the best of your ability, either tothe EFF, the Gentoo Foundation, or another organization that you feelexpresses these ideas.

In memory of Ferris E. McCormick (fmccor): trustee, developer, and friend.  from Gentoo Linux News

It is with sadness that we as Trustees bring forward this news that we haverecently received. Ferris Ellsworth McCormick, better known as fmccor, haspassed away unexpectedly on the 5th of August. His family does not wish to becontacted. We have expressed our gratitude for his contributions on behalf ofthe Community. Ferris studied mathematics in college at Indiana University, graduating in 1968with a Bachelor of Arts. Later he entered into the Law school at the Universityof Michigan, earning his Juris Doctor degree in 1991. He passed the bar in Michigan that same year and has continued to be anactively certified Lawyer with the State of Michigan since then. He was also amember of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ferris joined Gentoo on April 16th 2004 as part of the sparc team and improvedsparc support for the entire open source community. Within a year he alsojoined the Developer Relations team to help with mediation of any issues thatmight come up between people. As ...

Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) speaks with David Abbott (dabbott)  from Gentoo Linux News

Developer Robin H. Johnson , who is a trustee board member, infrastructure team lead, spoke with David Abbott . Robin is the backbone of the Gentoo infrastructure team which includes theforums, bugzilla, and most important, the Gentoo Portage tree. He describes his first open source project, phpMyadmin, how he became a Gentoodeveloper, and the layout of the infrastructure. "Nearly 50 percent of the infrastructure hardware is taken up by webapplications, because we have a lot of separation between web applications thathave a high security exposure. Admittedly some of the web services are a verybig deal for Gentoo, like our Bugzilla service, running on 4 machines sponsoredby the Dutch social network, Hyves. Very recently we've gotten new hardware forForums, sponsored by Gossamer Threads. The next largest slice after that is themachines that provides rsync.gentoo.org service. Only then do we get down toindividual machines for purposes. There's some cases where having more hardwa ...