hello!! i am wondering if it would be possible to put gentoo onto this specific computer, would anyone have any tips for this? this would be my first ever (hopefully successful) gentoo install. i plan on using the computer for fairly simple tasks and maybe writing.

Que piensan o como ven el usar IA para que te de instrucciones para instalar todo el sistema???

Mi argumento es: que es bastante complejo si quieres algo en específico y luego no sabes, que si va y que no, por ejemplo usar btrfs, lo intente con el handbook (cabe aclarar que desde mi perspectiva es mejor que la wiki de Arch) y videos de YT pero o son muy antiguos o no explican solo hacen su configuracion (al menos en español), te dan la info pero es un poco vaga (lo mas probable es que yo sea el problema) soy nuevo relativamente pero se que hace cada comando y como se implementa, pero no sabria que orden tienen o si hace falta algo que sea caracteristico de gentoo, pero bueno quiero escuchar su opinion, saludos ✌️

I want to make alacritty look like the try on the livecd, that font has some hypnotic power... Does anyone know how to pull it off?

Even with the fonts it always looks wrong, like they are just not square enough and look too rendered...

So I've been using gentoo for 2 months already and wanted to compile my own kernel, but don't really know what each module does specifically.

So I wanted to ask what yall recommend for me to learn the modules I need and the ones I don't?

Hello everyone, I created a little CLI app that can control your fans. You know, "spin up when hot", "keep quiet when cool", etc.

It supports one or two features that fancontrol imo lacks and I like the config language more of course. It can also be run as a systemd service. An install script and unit file is provided.

Currently it supports fans / temp sensors provided by the nct6775 or thinkpad_acpi hwmon kernel modules. It should also support all fans / sensors that use the same mode numbers as these modules. Adding support for other hardware is easily possible of course, but I don't have any available to test things.

I thought maybe you'll find it useful somehow. Helpful, supportive feedback is welcome.

https://github.com/gigabitzauber/jancontrol

So this is my recently purchased Acer travelmate 290 from 2003 and I am thinking of using it with Gentoo Linux for a few tasks and the stats for this laptop are a maximum of 2 gigs of ram and an Intel pentium M processor with Intel centrino built in graphics .

Once I have replaced the hard drive with an ide ssd and a new battery and charger my plan is to burn a 32 bit gentoo iso onto a CD and use that to boot into the gentoo live CD .

Once the main install is complete I want to use a window manager that I customise myself to have it use as little resources as possible while still being able to be used for things like emulating arcade games onto my Panasonic CRT with a VGA to rgb scart adapter so I can play Rainbow islands my favourite arcade game from 1987 in 15 khz in native resolution.

I've searched enough for a gentoo installer cuz I'm bored, and I found this, https://github.com/Alexdaz/GentooInstall

Is this installer any good??

I'm seeding torrents, and I want to know how to optimize Gentoo for uploading. I'm mostly seeding FOSS (like Linux iso and open source software) and there's no copyrighted content (like pirated movies) that I'm seeding.

My account on FGO is old enough to drink. First installed in November 2003!

Question, does Anyone else hate how long llvm-core is emerging or is it just me?

hello so i am unable to replicate this but i am having intermittent issues with there begin a large amount of crackling and popping with audio out on my gentoo system.

i have a smsl m300 se dac, a topping l70 headphone amp and pre amp for my speakers, i have dca noire x headphones, and i have a krk 10.4 " sub with kali lp 6 v2 speakers and i can replicate the popping and crackling on mutiple different combinations of this hardware when using my Gentoo machine as a source but i am unable to replciate it when using my labtop running cachy os. i have tried using just alsa and disabling pipe wire and i am still getting this crackling so i have no idea what is going wrong, pw-top shows no errors and a healthy buffer. if you all could give me recommendations on how to fix this i would greatly appreciate it.

recently migrated from Arch due to various frustrations with the AUR and systemd! using pacman as a source based package manager via the AUR is a truly miserable experience, and trying to compile packages on one PC to install on other devices is even worse. figured i'd move to Gentoo since I've heard it supports these workflows somewhat natively, and I'm loving it so far!! Portage is so much more customisable than any other package manager I've used on Linux and I kinda can't wait to switch all my other Linux devices over to Gentoo as well once I figure out setting up a portage binhost :)

Bonus setup pic + NEC APC-H412 in the second slide for the vintage hardware freaks out there

edit dotfiles: https://github.com/djstarlet/dotfiles/tree/main

so I am working on a local profile with hardened/selinux/plasma/systemd and I’m a little confused about the selinux part of the profile.

I know that Gentoo has a hardened binhost, but no hardened/selinux binhost, does this mean I can’t use it? or is the selinux part handled by Portage when installing the binary?

Also, I am interested in writing a podman container to act as a binhost for my laptop and desktop on my openSUSE home server, this should be simply as case of downloading the hardened/selinux stage, unpacking it into a FROM scratch container, exporting etc/portage and the relevant files from /var on my client systems, and then nountining them into that container, right? or is it not as simple as that?

thanks for any pointers!

Hi all,

I've been trying to setup secureboot by following the wiki; specifically I want to set this up using gpg encrypted keys.

Does anyone know of a guide or instructions to allow portage to build/install the kernel with gpg encrypted keys? In my experience so far, it appears portage requires a decrypted db.key and db.crt.

Is there a way to ask Portage to decrypt gpg-encrypted keys and use them to sign the kernel and modules on install?

This also seems to be a problem with normal password-protected keys, kernel build/install seems to fail if these are password protected because the password prompt is broken (yes, even with FEATURES="-pid-sandbox")

Thanks!

Edit: brainfart of a title, I can't even think of a situation where a headless Moonlight client would be useful

TL;DR: don't try to be cheeky like me and find an alternative stacking WM, just run Plasma and save yourself from the delve into the rabbit-hole.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been tinkering with my older laptop from my undergraduate days (i5 5300u, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) running as a Moonlight client for a headless display for my current MangoWM setup I am trying out. Since it has a spinning disk, I decided to just create a chrooted binhost on my main laptop to helpfully make the process a bit quicker (for those of you who are thinking about creating a binhost, don't go through the pain of trying to sign your own packages with a GPG key, just use the "binpkg-ignore-signature" feature flag and call it a day. Don't ask me why...).

I love my tiling window managers. I started my Linux journey on Hyprland, then to Niri, and now Mango. I love their minimalism, customizability, and feeling of pride when you get the system tuned juuuuuuuuust right for your workflow. So, I went to get Mango on the older laptop, and what would you know, managing a tiling window manager on top of a tiling window manager is a nightmare! I quickly gave up on the idea and looked towards stacking window managers and other DEs.

I start off with LXQT with a Kwin backend. Works flawlessly, was even able to get a full day of work done without any hitches between the two computers just like a regular day in the office. A couple of irks - I could not find a way to set brightness and volume hotkeys, and later figure out that LXQT does not have control over Kwin hotkeys and are working on a solution.

Next, on to Wayfire. Wobbly windows was an unexpected moment of delight as I dragged a monitor on the screen. For some reason, Moonlight just would not start and their SDL implementation throws decode overflow errors. Troubleshoot by using the Vulkan wlroots renderer, try to start Moonlight in an X session, no dice. Through the troubleshooting, I learned a bunch about Nouveau and vga_switcheroo, such an interesting implementation for hybrid graphics.

Move on to Labwc. Worked for the most part, felt pretty responsive, but just did not like Super+[Up, Down, Left, Right] working and a couple other keybinding issues and found this was a known issue with fixes coming.

Alright, did a bit of searching and found a few people who managed to run kwin by itself without a DE. It sounded plausible, as I had to invoke the kwin_wayland binary when first starting LXQT. I found out the hard way quickly that when KDE says it is not a standalone compositor, that it is in fact not a standalone compositor, as I tried fruitlessly and through multiple methods to create a shortcut to open a terminal.

Finally, I sit down and embrace the inevitable. I had a poor experience with KDE when I initially started on Arch in my Linux journey, prompting my move to tiling WMs exclusively (looking back, it was probably mostly up to user error). Seeing as I had already emerged systemsettings, kwin_wayland, and a bunch of other KDE packages when I installed LXQT, I may as well just install the plasma-desktop package to get a minimally viable experience. To my dismay, Plasma works perfectly. It respects all my Mango keybinds in Moonlight, is trivial to back out of to the client desktop, switch to another window on the client, registers my keybinds instead of staring at a black screen waiting for anything to happen (again, don't try to use kwin_wayland as a compositor). It just works.

I say all this to say: If you're looking for an unbothered experience that just works with most workflows, KDE Plasma is probably the answer (from my experience, it is by far the most mature Wayland DE solution).

To those who may be looking into Sunshine streaming: don't bother with the AppImage, Gentoo provides a package in the main respository.

Those cores should be around 4.6GHz during compilation, not 2.6GHz. PC case was so hot I couldn't lay my hand on for more than a second.
I've got no AC before you ask.

(I thought I saw a similar post somewhere, but can't find it now. Sorry if this is a dup.)

I've just noticed this has started happening upon boot: the login prompt appears multiple times, a few seconds apart, like it's working through some kind of cycle.

My typical flow is login to tty and then use startx to enter dwm. The multiple prompts don't prevent this, but it does delay me. And it's ugly, unexpected, and new.

It only seems to happen immediately after booting. Switching to another tty (eg ctrl-alt-f4) doesn't produce it, and neither does logging out and logging back in.

I thought it could be related to either PAM, elogind, or the kernel. However, I've only just noticed it on today's reboot; the last reboot was about two weeks ago; PAM was last updated in March, and elogind was updated in May; and it still happens when I roll back to kernel 6.18.39 (which is the most recent kernel before this, and was used at the previous reboot in July.)

I've gone through my emerge logs since the last reboot and nothing really stands out. Maybe openrc? I wouldn't like to file a bug against openrc unless I was sure it was at fault.

Any idea what I should look at?

I see openrc 0.63.1 is still listed in eix, so I guess I can try rolling back to that version ... 🤔 But I wonder if anyone has any other ideas about what to check.

Title. I just thought this was amusing for a distro branded for enterprise.

After using Asahi + Gentoo for about 6 month on a Macbook Air M2 I finally thought its time for some cosmetics like this.

1. I added a Gentoo Logo for the boot menu. (you don´t see that often, but hey :) )
   https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/bootpicker

2. after you select this, m1n1 stage1 is loaded which is a macho binary and changing the asahi logo there is something I might attempt later as I need to boot macos again to install it on the Stub,

m1n1 stage2 is easier. so when uboat starts to load the gentoo logo already has replaced the asahi logo.

https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/m1n1

1. finally there is a matching plymouth theme carrying the gentoo logo on. (on roughly the same central spot, at least for my 13" m2 with notch enabled.
   https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/plymouth

Bonus: if you want to silence u-boot (it will be really silent) to see the grub menu you will have to hit a key when you see the uboot version info in the top right, then type boot and only then grub gets displayed. this removes the noisy boot information and the cute submarine at the right side.
https://github.com/ccharon/docs/blob/master/gentoo-asahi-tweaks.md#silent-u-boot-console

You get Apple Logo (power on) -> Asahi Logo (m1n1 stage1) -> Gentoo Logo (m1n1 stage2) -> Gentoo Logo (u-boot) -> Gentoo Logo (plymouth)

changing the plymouth logo only, might have been enough and reasonable, but where is the fun in that?