Funtoo Next-Release Project

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   Summary
This is the Next-Release project, which is focused on the "next" release of Funtoo Linux.
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This is the Next-Release project, which is focused on the "next" release of Funtoo Linux. This a more aggressively updated release of Funtoo that is intended to perpetually be improved.

There are other projects that are related to Next-Release but have their own project -- see Project:Media-Kit.

   Warning

We reserve the right to break or make disruptive changes in next-release AT ANY TIME!

   Tip

Please understand, depending on your system performance and package load, it may take a very long time to upgrade.

Where to begin

Please allow the following thread to introduce you to the next release of Funtoo. https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/4970-announcing-next-release/

It is shockingly easy to get started, should you choose to. Thanks @drobbins

To convert a system to next-release:

 Do a world update on your system and specifically ensure you have the latest portage and ego installed.
 Add "release = next" to the "[global]" section of /etc/ego.conf
 Run "ego sync"
 Then run "epro build next".

https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/4970-announcing-next-release/