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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.

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

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."

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

OSL provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world.

osuosl.orgOSU Open Source LabA nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

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.
phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux

www.phoronix.comGentoo Linux Announces Official QCOW2 Images For Cloud 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.