Its FOSS reports that several long-standing sponsors of Gentoo’s infrastructure have stopped contributing, leaving the source-based Linux distribution asking for replacements because it runs largely on donated hardware and hosting and keeps only a few machines of its own. Gentoo’s wiki lists five ways to help: donated machines for its US hosting sites, colocation with rack space, power and connectivity, virtual machines with at least 2 vCPUs, 4GB of RAM and 25GB of storage, fully hosted physical servers, or money to cover colocation and hosting; capacity outside the US is described as the most urgent need. The article notes the sponsors page still lists Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab, CDN77, HP and Hetzner, and contrasts Gentoo’s shortfall with LVFS, whose firmware update service now draws Premier-tier support of $100,000 a year each from Lenovo and Dell alongside backing from Framework, the Open Source Firmware Foundation, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, HP and NVIDIA.
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
Its FOSS reports that several long-standing sponsors of Gentoo's infrastructure have stopped contributing, leaving the source-based Linux distribution asking for replacements because it runs largely on donated hardware and hosting and keeps only a few machines of its own. Gentoo's wiki lists five ways to help: donated machines for its US hosting sites, colocation with rack space, power and connectivity, virtual machines with at least 2 vCPUs, 4GB of RAM and 25GB of storage, fully hosted physical servers, or money to cover colocation and hosting; capacity outside the US is described as the most urgent need. The article notes the sponsors page still lists Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, CDN77, HP and Hetzner, and contrasts Gentoo's shortfall with LVFS, whose firmware update service now draws Premier-tier support of $100,000 a year each from Lenovo and Dell alongside backing from Framework, the Open Source Firmware Foundation, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, HP and NVIDIA.
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