Almost exactly one year after the idea of porting Portage to MacOS X came up - and the joint Metapkg initiative[1] between Fink, Darwinports and Gentoo took off - a 20-head-strong developer team around Pieter van den Abeele[2] (strategic lead) and Daniel Ostrow[3] (operational) is now ready to release an extraordinary beast into the wild: Gentoo MacOS. They deliver on a promise no other Linux distribution has been daring enough to make yet: Portage on MacOS is now fully operational, seamlessly integrated as a package manager in a non-Linux operating system.