Includes KDE SC 4.7.4, GNOME 3.2.1, Blender 2.60 and LibreOffice 3.5 Beta

Jan 3, 2012 07:48 GMT  ·  By

The Gentoo Linux team, through David Abbott, proudly announced yesterday, January 2nd, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Gentoo Linux 12.0 operating system.

Gentoo Linux 12.0 is powered by Linux kernel 3.1.5 and includes some of the latest technologies, such as XOrg Server 1.10.4, KDE Software Compilation 4.7.4, GNOME 3.2.1, Xfce 4.8, Fluxbox 1.3.2, Mozilla Firefox 9.0, LibreOffice 3.5 Beta, The GIMP 2.6.11, Amarok 2.5, VLC 1.1.13, Chromium 16.0, Blender 2.60, and much more.

Gentoo Linux 12.0 also comes with two new special features: writable filesystems using AUFS, to easily emerge new packages, and persistence mode for $HOME is available by default (press F9 for more information).

Gentoo Linux 12.0 comes as a normal Live DVD and a multilib Live DVD for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Download Gentoo Linux 12.0 right now from Softpedia.