It appears that the recent crisis of existence over at Gentoo has resulted in a reinvigoration of the project. LinuxCrazy has interviewed Roy Bamford, the recently elected Gentoo Foundation president, on the current state of Gentoo.
In related developments, Gentoo has released a second beta of Gentoo 2008.0 for testing (the last release was almost a year ago, in May), so it appears that things are progressing with the traditional Gentoo rapidity. Huzzah!
This is good news. I’m just now turning back to Linux after leaving Gentoo behind over four years ago. I just hope things haven’t changed so much that I’ll have to start from scratch.