Update — August results:

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Turns out I spent a bit more time troubleshooting outside Gentoo than I thought this month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/s/ZOUzdxuj95

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I love Alpine's super low ram usage, and disk space, but I just love Gentoo's portage more.

I know Gentoo is super customizable, and was wondering whats the least amount of packages needed for a Gentoo install. Maybe using a musl and llvm stage3, and then deleting every package except for ones needed to run I could get pretty close. I know bash is a hard requirement, but is it possible to make it use busybox via symlinks, patches, and seperate packages for stuff thats needed but not included? Maybe for coreutils there's an alternative that uses less ram or disk space?
I'd like to try and make my Gentoo install use the least ram as possible.

I want to maintain the use of the host machine hardware to compile (so no shared compilation like Distcc), but want to have the build dir (/var/tmp/portage/) in another machine that has more storage in disk.

Im trying to share via NFS, alredy shared the distfiles dir between my machines. But for the build dir that are inside /var/tmp

After setting up the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variables says that they arent writable

My /etc/exports

(/var/cache/distfiles is binded to distfiles and /var/tmp is binded to build)

/srv/packages           192.168.0.0/24(insecure,rw,sync,no_subtree_check,crossmnt,fsid=0)
/srv/packages/distfiles 192.168.0.0/24(insecure,rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
/srv/packages/build     192.168.0.0/24(insecure,rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

Hi everyone. I'm using Gentoo for a while but one issue I'm unable to solve is the following.

Here's my setup: openrc and Gnome 49 on Wayland on a hp ProBook with integrated graphics.

The problem is that when I log off and on it shows the Gnome wallpaper and upper bar and the entire system halts.

When this happens I can't switch to another TTY. I haven't tried the magic sysrq keys yet.

Anyways. It's pretty annoying and I was hoping if someone has a solution. If I need to provide more info I'll gladly do so.

Thanks in advance!

Why on earth GCC is not a binary😅 Pinebook Pro so it'll take all night.. but still best OSnfor me

I recently realized that I knight need a swap partition but I’ve already installed encrypted Gentoo, is there any way I can create one post install?

i am use debian for a while , like 2 year, and i think i should swich to gentoo , because i love source code , c , Rust , and more , any advice to help me (sorry for my bad englich)

I’m going through the install following the handbook and I got “bash: PS1: command not found”. I don’t see anything in the install handbook and googling just brought up “make sure you typed it right” and I can’t check the forums because this is my first install and I have no clue how to answer the verification question. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi all,

The Wine wiki article has been modified, instructions about how to get ntsync module loaded were added https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wine#Kernel

Still, are there any volunteers out here to test the udev method ? Check if /dev/ntsync is present, and eventually launch something with command line to see if ntsync: up and running line appears just after launch. Thanks

$ WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix wine game.exe
ntsync: up and running.

EDIT : Another method to check if ntsync is used, when Wine/Proton is running fuser -v /dev/ntsync

$ fuser -v /dev/ntsync 
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/ntsync:         krumpf    49749 f.... start.exe
                     krumpf    49751 f.... wineserver
                     krumpf    49757 f.... services.exe
                     krumpf    49760 f.... winedevice.exe
                     krumpf    49770 f.... plugplay.exe
                     krumpf    49778 f.... svchost.exe
                     krumpf    49784 f.... winedevice.exe
                     krumpf    49822 f.... rpcss.exe
                     krumpf    49833 f.... conhost.exe

should list processes using ntsync.

Do you think it will be possible to build it? And is it worth it?

(I have 16 GB RAM and 39 GB swap on NVMe)

I had installed Gentoo on my ThinkPad P53 before, used nouveau drivers and it worked fine, but had some issues. After a while I removed gentoo and installed it again, but this time I set intel drivers by accident

After I noticed the mistake I deleted the intel driver (removed the USE flags I had set and re-edited the config files) and set up the proprietary Nvidia drivers to give it a try, but for some reason the performance has been abysmal. Games I used to be able to play just fine now run extremely poorly and I don't know what to do? I followed the wiki closely but it feels like the discreet graphics card isn't working at all

Dual core cpu=long compilation times=you go in the closet foo

🐧

Hello i just installed gentoo on an R61 and was wondering if it made it any faster or is there any pros to compiling stuff ? is it just less space ? (i know i can take stuff out so it's not in there for privacy and other reason but im genuenly interested)

I used GIMP to edit this

Michelangelo Creation of Adam

The ascii art was generated with https://www.asciiart.eu/image-to-ascii, after that I had to then manually erase other stuff generated by it because it looked quite messy, using nvim made it quite easy to edit it

The gentoo logo was downloaded at: https://www.gentoo.org/inside-gentoo/artwork/gentoo-logo.html

font used to type: "Compiling the '@world'" is SF square head font

for those who want the wallpaper: https://imgur.com/a/K2v16Ys

I call it the "Creation of Gentoo"

Hi all, I have a question about NTSYNC.

As a gentoo-sources user, I'm configuring & building the kernel myself, and I choose to setup ntsync as builtin CONFIG_NTSYNC=y (if built as module, Wine and Steam's Proton cannot load the module, it needs to be done through a config file in modules-load.d).

My question is, how is it setup in other kernel versions, gentoo-kernel & gentoo-kernel-bin ? People who use those kernels are welcome to answer, thanks.

grep NTSYNC /boot/config-$(uname -r)

And for the people using it as module, do you have a specific way to load it ?

EDIT : still hoping for entries about pre-built kernels, thanks !

Last day of August — still maintaining Gentoo. ASUS ROG Strix QHD IPS, btw.

Just a small end-of-month maintenance check. MC, Tint2, and the rest of the setup are still running fine. No reinstall, just maintenance.

QHD survived. FHD didn’t.

こちらからのコメント控えさせて頂きます。 既に500 overのために

Did you know that SSD's have a short lifespan which unlike HDD's is based on writes rather than time, in case you were using linux and building each part of your system from scratch (for performance), it makes sense to use sacrifice some of the SSD's so your compiled system has some chance to be slightly more efficient to access afterwards than if you were to use HDD's to do so(read to learn how to compile on HDD: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#PORTAGE_TMPDIR), but once you completely the installation then all updates and additional less used applications must be compiled on the harddisk, for which you simply change a few variables in the make.conf file. Once the setup is complete, your ssd can practically last for ever unlike in the case of windows, where even idle usage ages it in a few years. There are two extra things to do:

1. One is to decrease the swapiness to the minimum value of 1 so its just a backup (which is the case in most modren linux systems since even 8gb or 16gb of ram can take you a long way), make your ssd swap be 40 (if ram is 16), and harddisk backup swap be 100gb, ofcourse the HDD swap should have a lower priority, then make sure hibernation uses harddisk instead of ssd, which again can be done by adding resume=PARTUUID(or something similar)=partuid_of_the_partition, and thats all done, your ssd life span is practically unlimited as long as you make sure your browsers dont offload data on your ssd to save ram which again dosent happen by default in my gentoo linux system.

2. Second is to configure a crontab to run a script stored in your harddisk with the following content every minute of the computer's uptime (while mkaing sure the file that heavy_working_files is in the harddisk (for additional peace of mind):

#!/usr/bin/bash

base_path="/mnt/heavy_working_files/Files used by personal scripts/files used by crontab's daily fstrim operation"

run_if_date_file_dosent_exist(){

/sbin/fstrim --all

umask 0

touch "${base_path}/$1" #removing 

rm -f "${base_path}/$2" #removing previous date

}

check_if_date_exists() {

current_date=$(date "+%A")

if [[ ! -e "${base_path}/${current_date}" ]]; then

run_if_date_file_dosent_exist "${current_date}" "$(date --date "1 day ago" "+%A")"    

fi

}

check_if_date_exists

Just configured and installed Gentoo with the help of the Gentoo installation guide and a youtuber, tony. Was wondering, what are some useful USE FLAGS I should add? Also I’ve only been using some pretty simple Linux distros for about 8 months, so bear with me because I do lack a lot of knowledge. I am using OXWM as an environment with tony’s github configuration and am running everything on my PC with a 9070xt and 9800x3D because I mainly use my computer for gaming, but I love configuration and messing around in the terminal. I’m stating this just because I would love to hear some recommendations or tips I could use that may be different from other distros, such as Arch, CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, NixOS, SteamOS. Once again, sorry for being a noob, and as you can tell, I am a distro hopper, but after this installation and learning the Portage manager, I can strongly say I feel at home already. Thanks for reading and its nice to see a great community online within Gentoo

This is my second Gentoo (working) install, I aimed at full binary because I'm too old to wait for compilation on this system. Also my goal was to get one of the non-systemd distros running on this machine. Void was my second choice, but Gentoo repos are bigger and if I do have to compile stuff off of Github I believe Gentoo is the best equipped distro for that. Not that is not possible with any other but it just feel more to the point on Gentoo. Anyways loving it thus far!