Guess who (finally) showed up on a Linux.com article for the category of "Best distribution for those with something to prove"...

On February 4th and 5th Gentoo will be present at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting. As usual, FOSDEM 2017 will be occurring in Brussels, Belgium.

We look forward welcoming those who have been working toward completing their developer quizzes!

Media release inbound from the Gentoo Miniconf at LinuxDays 2016 in Prague!

YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICDJo0onMRJFwAD3V7KGZWgnkxQaELeh

PDFs: https://projects.gentoo.org/pr/presentations/2016-10-08-linuxdays/

Find a list of previous Gentoo-related presentations given at conferences here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Public_Relations/Available_Presentations

4 weeks are left until +LinuxDays and Gentoo Miniconf 2016 in Prague.

Are you excited to see Gentoo in action? Here is something to look forward to:

* Gentoo amd64-fbsd on an ASRock E350M1
* Gentoo arm64 on a +Raspberry Pi 3 (yes, running a 64 bit kernel and userland) with systemd
* Gentoo mipsel on an +Imagination Technologies MIPS Creator CI20 with musl libc
* Gentoo arm on an Orange Pi PC, with clang as system compiler


Currently 22 Gentoo developers have signed up for FOSDEM 2017. See you this weekend?

KDE Plasma 4 has reached end of life in Portage. Upstream dropped support on 2015-08-19, no security bugs have been fixed since. It is therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.

KDM is being removed as well. Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by plasma-meta by default. OpenRC users edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER. Systemd users run: systemctl reenable sddm.service

Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop profile, which is superseded by the Plasma desktop profile. Please follow the detailed upgrade guide.[1]
KDE Plasma 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset

For our friends in Germany, there will be a Gentoo booth this weekend at the OpenRheinRuhr free software conference in Oberhausen - see https://www.openrheinruhr.de/
Come by to see Gentoo live in action, get Gentoo swag, and compile your own Gentoo button!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at the Miniconf in Prague! More media is coming soon!

Photos by Diego Elio Pettenò (@flameeyes).

Are you near Bonn, Germany this weekend? Come visit the Gentoo booth at #FrOSCon11 , have a talk with our developers, get some Gentoo swag, and compile your own Gentoo button with multiple colors and logos you can choose from!