2008.0_beta2 is here. Thanks to you, our community, for testing beta1 and filing many bugs. You can help make 2008.0 amazing! Test out this beta and report any functionality issues you encounter. Since this is still a beta, we're looking only for bugs in functionality, not bugs in appearance such as desktop backgrounds or other artwork.

Hello and welcome to the third issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter. We would like to thank our readers for their enthusiastic response, and hope that you will continue to write in. Although it may not be possible to respond to each and every one of you, we can assure you that every mail we receive is read and plays a role in shaping future editions of the GMN.

In this month's issue: Gentoo trustee elections, how a team works, graphical statistics and more!

Each ebuild in the Portage tree used to come with its own digest
file. When you emerged a package, this digest was used to verify that
you had the same files the developer did.

Just in time for the holidays, NVIDIA has released a new Linux
display driver, which is a stable version of their previous 169.04 beta last month.