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Everyone,
Funtoo Linux infrastructure is now 100% SSL and should be configured to provide high levels of security (most testers will rate us A+ for SSL configuration.)
Regards,
Daniel
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Hi All,
ego-2.2.0 has been released, and is an important update, and will be appearing in meta-repo soon.
New functionality has been added to help you view kit configuration. To view your current kit settings, type:
# ego kit statusThis will display your current kit settings, as well as their stability level. The stability level is set by Funtoo and lets you know if you are running something we consider 'stable' or not. We recommend that all our users use kits that have a 'prime' stability level. Note that this is different than the kit having 'prime' in its name! When I create a kit, I may call it 1.1-prime if the goal is to make it production-quality, but the moment it is created, it is still considered 'dev' (developers only) status. Type "man ego-kit" for more information on this.
It is now also possible to view a similar listing, but one that displays ALL available kits and their stability levels, by typing:
# ego kit listThis new release of ego also includes a host of other improvements, such as improvements to the "ego doc" MediaWiki parser.
Enjoy, Daniel
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I just fixed login-related issues. Funtoo users who had not used the forums before were unable to log in.
I've also fixed the password reset link to go to our official password reset page, as well as the create account link. So logins should be working well.
One note is that if you were are user of the old forums, and you changed your 'displayname' to show something other than your username, then your forums account username will be your displayname. You can alternatively try logging in with your email as your username instead.
Everyone else should be good to go using their funtoo username (and password, of course) to log in here.
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So skunk, you are suggesting we have a kde-kit which maybe we snapshot and get to 'prime' quality, and then we have a kde-apps kit that many users may want to set to 'master' to get the latest fixes... or something like this?
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Hey all, welcome to the new forums! Our old forum software has been upgraded to the latest version and I'm going to be working hard to help make this a really great resource for everyone.
Our "Funtoo Universe" section is set up in a traditional forum style, and "Help Central" is now in a Q&A-style mode. Let me know how you like the Q&A style mode. Both sets of forums allow you to tag posts as being answered and we have the ability to flag the best answer.
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OK, well this is really good info -- besides this info, what do you think we should do, resnapshot a 5.11-prime and try to stabilize this? or should be have a 'wider' definition for the version so we can bump to 5.12.x? Beyond?
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The money is used for a variety of purposes. First, to pay the hosting bills, but we do make a profit and the extra funds are used to pay Oleg so that he can work on Funtoo Linux full-time, for needed equipment for the project, as well as server upgrades. For example, I am building a couple of new 40-core servers with upgraded storage that are getting ready to go to the datacenter. If Funtoo has an expense, we have the funds to pay for it -- for example, this is commercial forums software. It also ensures that we have money to periodically upgrade our build systems, which currently are AMD excavator, Intel haswell, odroid xu4, and odroid c2. If I need a new piece of equipment, I can purchase it. Generally, I'm pretty frugal -- I'm using a (really nice) W541 laptop I purchased used from eBay and rebuilt, but I did recently upgrade my aging dual-monitor setup with some new Dell 25" monitors. So right now the funds just generally act as a buffer to keep Oleg supported and our equipment going, while allowing for periodic upgrades as needed.
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When we create a 'prime' kit, the idea is that it is snapshotted so we can stabilize it for users. The name is supposed to reflect the version of the main thing in the kit. It looks like we chose a bad time to create 5.10-prime but the general idea would be to just do bug fixes on it until it is very high 'prime' quality.
It may have been better to create a 5-prime kde-kit and that is something we could look into doing instead. I don't use KDE so I need input from others about what is likely to be stable over the long haul.
The goal of a prime kde kit is to just get everything working consistently for users. It may not be bleeding edge but it will be a good starting point. And then we would roll out newer prime kits that are also stable, etc. so the changes would come in controlled and tested groups rather than dribble in as they do now.
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If you are using LVM, you could set up a new root logical volume and then update boot-update/grub to boot to your new system.
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I have not tried Arch but I suggest you just start with our install docs and go from there, and let us know how the install goes. I'd be interested in getting your feedback on how the install feels since you are an Arch user.
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Glad to hear :)
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Hi everyone,
We've decided to retire funtoo-stable to keep us focused as we move towards funtoo kits and other next-generation initiatives. I recommend that all stable users migrate to funtoo-current.
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I forgot to post this in the forums, but make sure you read about Funtoo kits:
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This was imported into the bug tracker: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-3636
The temporary workaround is to use gcc-config to set your compiler to 4.8.5 so you can emerge the ebuild, and then set it back to 5.x afterwards. We're working on fixing it so this is not necessary.
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Hi, and thanks for considering Funtoo. I think that debian-sources is the best kernel to use. It does have speakup modules enabled by default.
99% of the ebuilds in Funtoo are identical to those in Gentoo. So, both the ebuilds you mention are available and come direct from Gentoo. The best way to get a list of available ebuilds is to grab our Portage tree via git and look at its contents into the funtoo branch.
The greatest challenge for installing Funtoo would be to find a LiveCD that has speakup support for the installation process. As long as you know of a good livecd with speakup support that gives you a bash shell and has all the necessary commands for installation (which basically is just your mkfs commands of choice and fdisk or gdisk, and chroot, and can establish a network connection) then you should be ready to go.
Best Regards,
-Daniel
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This should be fixed in corenetwork 1.6.2, hitting the Portage tree soon. Thanks for the report.
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Hi all,
I'm seriously considering shutting down our funtoo forums and just redirecting everyone over to https://www.reddit.com/r/funtoo/for 'forums'.
Reason: reddit gets funtoo a lot more exposure and provides a popular forums-style discussion area.
Before making a decision, I want to get feedback from people here. It is cool to have our own forums but there is also some downside that only a fraction of Funtoo users participate in forums and new users may have an easier time posting questions to reddit. It also ensures that our funtoo reddit community will be 'staffed' with true funtoo users, which is important.
Let me know what you think.
-Daniel
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Sorry for not catching this sooner. This info has been migrated into the funtoo profiles themselves, so it is no longer needed in metro.
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I found a few package.use settings I missed in integrating the gnome-3.16-fixups mix-in into the main GNOME mix-in. Some of these could cause systemd to get pulled in. Now regenerating the tree. If you still see systemd pulled in after doing emerge --sync, file a bug.
iio-sensor-proxy requires that "s" word - should I keep trying or move on?
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Gary, I would open a funtoo bug about this -- I can look in the source code and see if there is truly a dep on systemd.