• Gentoo now offers qcow2 disk images

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wed Feb 26 16:30:08 2025
    Gentoo now offers qcow2 disk images

    Date:
    Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:22:48 +0000

    Description:
    The Gentoo Linux project has announced the availability of qcow2 images for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64
    (aarch64), and plans to " eventually " offer images for the
    riscv64 and loongarch64 architectures. The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully
    functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console ("no root pw"), or with
    network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init
    running on boot ("cloud-init").

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1011959/


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