Arora and other additions to portage
As some of you may have noticed, I recently added a few more packages to portage. First of all I want to mention Arora, the Qt4 WebKit browser for which I already have a live git ebuild in berkano overlay. I am making snapshot ebuilds now, about twice a month, to make it easy for […]
8 Jul 08 at 00:14 | arora, Gentoo, juffed | Comments: 4
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The joy of updates
Glibc-2.8 and gcc-4.3.1 were let loose on ~arch the other day, and this —as expected— caused some fuss. While gcc-4.3.0 had been sitting in p.mask, a lot of packages were tested and patches were applied, so this did not cause too much trouble. You can check bug 198121 to see that many issues are resolved, […]
13 Jun 08 at 00:47 | gcc, Gentoo, glibc, libtool, pixman, updates | Comments: 14
Gentoo Linux 2008.0-beta1 screenshots
Because people are always curious for screenshots, have a look over at phorolinux, who has published a number of screenshots from the Gentoo Linux 2008.0-beta1 LiveCD, showing the boot screens and various stages of the installer. As this is a beta, I would recommend people who can to test the installer and report any problems […]
8 Apr 08 at 21:59 | beta, Gentoo, screenshots | Comments: 1
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Why Gentoo?
image by Paul Downey
Recently Distrowatch editor Ladislav Bodnar complained:
I keep saying the same thing every time people come here to defend Gentoo: please write an article explaining why Gentoo is the greatest thing since sliced pickles and I’ll publish it in the next issue of DistroWatch Weekly. Or write a review. Write about your experiences […]
7 Apr 08 at 00:39 | Gentoo, user experience | Comments: 22
Know your distro: Gentoo features
image by David Barrie
Gentoo has a number of features you should familiarize yourself with, if you want to use and administer it successfully. In today’s part of this series, I am not going to explain everything, but I’m sending you back to the resources we covered yesterday. (I’m mean like that.)
The first place is taken […]
20 Mar 08 at 02:24 | documentation, eselect, Gentoo | Comments: 1
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Know your distro: Gentoo documentation sources
image by worak
Of course the first step to being a successful Gentoo user should be to get to know the distro you’re using. This may seem self-evident, but the opposite human tendencies of curiosity and laziness may battle over this. You may dive into the handbook just enough to get the operating system installed and […]
19 Mar 08 at 01:22 | documentation, Gentoo, google | Comments: 5
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How to be a Successful Gentoo User
image by James Gordon
This week I want to write a series of blog posts on “How to be a Successful Gentoo User.” I regularly spend time in #gentoo, our IRC support channel, as well as on the forums. Having been a Gentoo user myself for over 5 years now, maintaining a public overlay for the […]
18 Mar 08 at 00:04 | Gentoo, howto, tips | Comments: 7
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More Gentoo pre-beta news
As a follow-up on my “While waiting for the next Gentoo release” post, there is some more news. While elsewhere an impatient Gentoo user has released his own unofficial LiveCD for i686, one of the Gentoo/MIPS devs has released experimental 2008.0-beta1 stages for Cobalt and SGI MIPS hardware. Our RelEng team is still working hard […]
17 Mar 08 at 22:25 | Gentoo, livecd | Comments: 1
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While waiting for the next Gentoo release…
I know some people are desperately waiting for the 2008.0 release, in order to have an up-to-date LiveCD and fresh stages to install Gentoo with. The beta release was originally planned for last week, but has suffered a little delay (but I can assure you that our Release Engineering team is working hard to get […]
10 Mar 08 at 20:41 | Gentoo, livecd, systemrescuecd | Comments: 4
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FFmpeg svn breakage
For people using my overlay (berkano overlay, available in layman), I just want to repeat the warning Diego gave that FFmpeg has changed the layout of its headers. This will break most packages that depend on FFmpeg, so you may want to wait with updating FFmpeg from subversion, until those packages have had time to […]
4 Mar 08 at 12:49 | ffmpeg, Gentoo, overlay | Comments: 0
Hello world!
Here’s Gentoo Linux‘ newest developer. I’ll be blogging about what interests me, which of course includes free software and the distro I volunteer for…
18 Feb 08 at 19:00 | blog, developer, Gentoo | Comments: 3
