One of the bigger changes that I’ve made to ebuilds in my local overlay on #GentooLinux, was to introduce global USE flags for OpenRC and dinit, as well as checks to allow conditional installation of their files.
I find it annoying that OpenRC files get installed even though I’m not using it. Same thing with Systemd, unit files still get installed despite -systemd being set globally.
I will not tolerate arbitrary files on my system. It’s bad enough that $HOME is already the Wild West.
Finally managed to get #GentooLinux running on my VM.
Dinit as /sbin/init & service manager, Seatd, Turnstile, sudo-rs; along with a few patches for various packages from #ChimeraLinux for additional enhancements.
Created and updated quite a few ebuilds; took a while to get everything working and keep Portage happy thanks to silly mistakes and me not properly reading the docs.
Next steps, tidy up and get a proper overlay going. Then replace Arch on my drive with this setup + Hyprland.
OK guys .. what are your opinions on #gentoolinux ?? I personally think that unless you have a blazing fast system, you're going to be waiting for shit to compile more than you're going to be using your machine.
Found the Gentoo Linux bin-only install mascot.
Got an ultra wide monitor, now all 32 Tuxes are visible.
I don't like or use #Windows anymore, but I did always like these cool #Wallpapers, and always wanted to make one of my own.
This is made in #Blender with #LuxCoreRender, though the caustics are subtle enough that #Cycles probably would have done a good enough job.
Maybe I'll do a Linux version, but I'm not sure exactly how I'd go about it. There's a lot of distros. I could just throw a bunch of icons in a pile, but that might look tacky. I could just do a standalone for #GentooLinux, which I still love, even though I use #FedoraLinux now.
#3DArt #AbstractArt
just do it
Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy
"Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations" ... "recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable."
"Unless we secure $250,000 in committed funds, the OSL will shut down later this year."
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
OSL provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world.
#KWin compilations are killing my PC again…
AHHHHNNGGGHHH!!!
One of the #Linux distributions we hear very little about in the industry for cloud/#VM usage is #GentooLinux. But that could change with the #Gentoo project now putting out official #QCOW2 disk images to make it easier deploying this source-based Linux distribution within #virtualmachines. With these QCOW2 images, the XFS file-system is their preferred choice used for its copy-on-write, reflinks, and other features.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-QCOW2-VMs
Update on Gentoo Flatpaks causing kernel bugs:
seems like a bug with 6.13.5-gentoo-dist (and might be in upstream), as I have about 2hr runtime on 6.13.6-gentoo-dist and have done various file ops in Flatpaks with no issue
it could've been a lot worse; fsck was run at boot for the old kernel when repairing, which wasn't a great sign, but I didn't lose any data and the kernel never techincally panicked
tl;dr update your system if you have 6.13.5
"BUG: Bad page state in process"
oh dear, Gentoo Kernel 6.13.5-gentoo-dist ~amd64 is experiencing Flatpak issues again.
This isn't the latest version of gentoo-dist, so I'll upgrade and test again, but even on my fairly CPU powerful system that could take me a while since other updates must also be done. I am mildly concerned this is related to Nvidia drivers that I use for stability.
I may be biased, but I really think that installing Gentoo is a very valuable learning experience and every Linux user should do it at least once, even if it's in a VM.
It really makes you learn how your system works, and it's not really that much harder than installing Arch manually, it just has extra steps.
#Kuroko and #Bim both on my #GentooLinux system
Am I just switching to #ToaruOS tools entirely now?
What next? #Yutani on Linux??? (Actually, that's not a bad idea...)