---
layout: tyrian
title: 'Welcome'
navtitle: 'Home'
nav1: home
nav1-show: true
nav1-weight: 1
description: 'The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux or BSD distribution.'
meta: '<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Gentoo Linux News" href="/feeds/news.xml">'
---
{% include hero-section/start class="emergehdr" %}
<div class="row">
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-8 col-md-9">
    <p>
      Welcome to Gentoo, a flexible, source-based Linux distribution that becomes just about any system you need—and much more.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-3 buttons">
    <a href="get-started/about/" class="btn btn-default btn-block">Learn more</a>
    <a href="get-started/" class="btn btn-primary btn-block"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-rocket"></i> Get started now</a>
  </div>
</div>
{% include hero-section/end %}

{% include frontpage/news %}

<div class="news-more">
  <a href="/news" class="btn btn-xs">All news items <span class="fa fa-fw fa-chevron-right"></span></a>
  <hr>
</div>

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <h2>Developer Blogs <small>live from <a href="https://planet.gentoo.org">Planet Gentoo</a></small></h2>
    {% include frontpage/planet %}
  </div>
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <h2>Security Advisories <small>from our <a href="https://security.gentoo.org/">Security database</a></small></h2>
    {% include frontpage/glsa %}
  </div>
</div>

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <h2>New Packages <small>more at the <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org">Gentoo Packages database</a></small></h2>
    {% include frontpage/packages %}
  </div>
  <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <h2>Fresh Documentation <small>on the <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Wiki</a></small></h2>
    {% include frontpage/wiki %}
  </div>
</div>

<hr>

<div class="row sponsor">
  {% render_ads %}
</div>