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It is also possible to create [[tarball]]s of packages for distribution to other machines. This is particularly useful in the case of a [[homogenous]] computing environment, where packages may be used on many machines despite having been prepared on a specific one.

In June 2003, [[Zachary Welch]], a long-standing developer and sponsor of Gentoo, announced that he was unhappy with the direction of Gentoo and startedwas to createcreating a new distribution. This is to be maintained by a new non-profit organisation, the [[Zynot Foundation]], a non-profit organisation.

Gentoo currently runs on the [[x86]], [[PowerPC]], [[SPARC]], and [[HPPA]] platforms. There are [[porting|ports]] underway for the [[AMD64]] and [[IA64]] processors.