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The year is 2021 and I've decided to embark on a journey to update an old laptop running an installation of Gentoo Linux that hasn't been updated since 2015. I've since used macOS and I've recently settled on a Windows 11 desktop running WSL2 as my main development environment. There's a lot of CPU…
Vítor Brandão
Another Xorg update After my last Xorg update I've lost the nice ability to log into my KDE. Well, this sucks because I spent a long time compiling kdelibs and friends so I really want to use it. Symptoms A blank screen on login. You can even see your mouse pointer but nothing else. If you take a…
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Coffee break everyone? Everyday morning was the same: updatedb came and took my Gentoo away. The symptoms were clear, X/KDE applications starting to become slow and unresponsive, and then the two inevitable choices: go for a coffee and wait or pkill the bastard. Asking updatedb to be nice (the wron…
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It has been a while since I took Laurento Fritella contributions on bugzilla for CoovaChilli-1.0.11 and made them available through Sunrise overlay. In the meantime I've tried to submit version 1.0.14 but run into some problems with SSL and I was back then completely out of time to fix it. Ebuild f…
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These are good news for the Gentoo community. Portage is being used to build Chromium OS packages. As you may know, Portage is the Gentoo Linux default package management system which has its roots on FreeBSD's ports. As of February 5, Google developer Ryan Cairns has made this statement on the Chr…
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