2008.0_beta1 unleashed.

When we said "soon," even we didn't realize how soon it would be. 2008.0_beta1 is here. Your support and enthusiasm are greatly appreciated—thank you.

You can help make 2008.0 amazing! Test out this beta and report any functionality issues you encounter. Since this is the first beta, we're looking only for bugs in functionality, not bugs in appearance such as desktop backgrounds or other artwork. We expect to release a second beta once your testing has helped us fix problems with this first beta.

A migration to RPM was carefully considered again for this release, but in the end we decided to wait for the few remaining RPM-using distributions to migrate to the superior packaging format of ebuilds.

http://www.gentoo.org/

这个是，宣传广告？
关于楼主所说第三段的内容，我不太明白。之前有发生过 Gentoo 打算使用 RPM 包管理器的讨论吗？

估计是。

gentoo有时候也太搞笑了点，昨天还说延后发布，结果第二天就说beta版出来了！

刚才去了一下官方网站，确认了有所谓 RPM 的讨论不是楼主的个人意愿表达（其实难听点就是说不是楼主瞎编出来的）。
　　Gentoo 官方应该 3-31 发布 Beta 1，4-1 宣布 2008.0 取消。这个玩笑开得才有震撼力。搞个 3-31 开一个不大不小的玩笑没意思……

这个是fool's day的笑话，上面说的很清楚，in the end we decided to wait for the few remaining RPM-using distributions to migrate to the superior packaging format of ebuilds.
意思就是rpm包机制不好，其他的发行版应该都转移到ebuild的机制，