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Guys, you are not really supposed to change the arch. That is set when the stage3 is built. Quit doing that, and eselect may work fine for you :)

The profiles themselves are working well, although eselect profile does have some bugs. I'm in the process of rewriting eselect profile to replace it with a new tool. Beta should be available within a week. More info near the bottom of the latest news item: http://www.funtoo.org/News:How_We%27re_Keeping_You_At_the_Center_of_the_Funtoo_Universe

Hey everyone, I've written up a news item detailing all the stuff that's going on with Funtoo to keep it focused on you, our users. Give it a read: http://www.funtoo.org/News:How_We%27re_Keeping_You_At_the_Center_of_the_Funtoo_Universe Best Regards, Daniel Robbins BDFL

Yes. there were a number of subarches moved over that don't use the official "intel64-" naming scheme. You should use the "intel64-" ones if possible.

xorg-server-1.17.1-r1 is now masked, until it is fully baked.

Also, per request, I just added a subarch for intel64-sandybridge.

Yes.

I have a GNOME system here -- the only thing I have masked is >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.17, because this system is using ati-drivers which are not yet compatible with 1.17. I'm not experiencing anything odd after the upgrades. Based on this, my guess is that it is directly related to xorg-server-1.17.

Open a bug for this on bugs.funtoo.org, if the issue persists and the deps aren't quite right.

I updated the search settings so 3-word search terms should be okay.

You shouldn't run wpa_supplicant -- only add NetworkManager to your runlevel, and use the "addwifi" command to add your connection. I typically don't have a NetworkManager.conf at all. "addwifi" will create an entry in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.

Hi All, If you have installed a new Funtoo Linux system in the last week, you may have noticed something interesting -- /etc/make.conf is EMPTY and eselect profile show shows something new -- a subarch profile: test / # eselect profile show Currently set profiles: arch: gentoo:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit build: gentoo:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/build/current flavor: gentoo:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/flavor/core subarch: gentoo:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit/subarch/corei7 What's going on? This is part, or maybe culmination of an ongoing effort to simplify /etc/make.conf. While it is still possible to set CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, by default, these settings are now defined in a subarch profile. By default, new stage3's will have a subarch profile set, but existing Funtoo systems don't need to have one set. If you'd like to set a subarch profile, you can do so by ensuring you have the latest eselect installed and using the "eselect profile set-subarch" command. What are the benefits of subarch profiles? Of course, the first big benefit is to keep /etc/make.conf clean. Subarch profiles, along with flavors and mix-ins, are designed to help keep /etc/make.conf tidy and only contain the tweaks you personally need for your system. It also assists with Metro, our stage building tool. Metro no longer has to store all the CFLAGS settings for each subarch -- these are now integrated into the Portage tree, in one place. And also, this allows us to fix and improve subarches over time, and you automatically benefit from any improvements with an emerge --sync. Hope you enjoy the new system, Daniel

Hi All, One new thing that we have had to deal with is the addition of the CPU_FLAGS_X86 variable to Gentoo and Funtoo Linux. As you may know, there are a lot of USE flags that deal with CPU instruction sets, such as "mmx", "sse", etc. These have been migrated to a CPU_FLAGS_X86 variable, which works similarly to other variables like VIDEO_CARDS. Strangely, I couldn't find any good documentation on the USE flags that are now CPU_FLAGS_X86, so I created my own docs for everyone on this page: http://www.funtoo.org/CPU_FLAGS As you can see, the history of CPU instruction sets for x86 systems has been pretty interesting and complex. One thing you might be wondering, especially if you are a new user, is what instructions are being used for your Funtoo Linux system. This is actually determined by the CFLAGS -march setting, primarily. This tells the compiler which instruction sets to use when building C programs. The additional CPU_FLAGS_X86 flags enable optional build-time functionality in ebuilds for these instruction sets that must be specifically enabled. Typically, these are special optimized parts that have been hand-written to run very fast on systems with these instruction sets. I hope this clarifies things. Over the next week, expect updates to the Subarches page on the wiki to reference CPU_FLAGS_X86 instead of USE. Regards, Daniel

Really nice screenshots -- I just changed www.funtoo.org's main page to show off some YouTube videos of Funtoo Linux -- feel free to share your vids as well. Post them here.

Lots of news here -- enjoy! http://www.funtoo.org/News:Newsletter,_Volume_1 -Daniel

Good idea. I'd be open to that. We could also add mediaformats-light to give people the basics they need to have a functional desktop that can read the most popular formats. On the "keeping users abreast of upcoming changes" front, I'm planning to leverage the news system on the wiki, tweets and forums posts more -- to pre-announce rather than to post-announce.

Digifuzzy, That request is a bit of a challenge, seeing as we have only 3 day-to-day developers, including myself, so we do need to stay focused on having an efficient development process, and yet I understand the benefits of what you are asking for and will look into ways to address it. -Daniel

Threesixes, this forum is for general Funtoo discussion, not off-topic discussion.

Yes, if you are using the desktop or workstation flavor, or have manually added the media mix-in. Though the actual USE flag additions weren't extremely dramatic, but probably affected quite a few packages.

Hey everyone, Funtoo Linux now has new media mix-ins! Thanks to Michal Gorny for implementing this for me. Learn about them here: http://www.funtoo.org/News:New_Media_Mix-ins Best Regards, Daniel Robbins

I need a dark theme to encourage me to lurk the forums at night :)

The new skin name is "Warrior" -- if you don't see it, you can select it from the "Change Theme" menu at the bottom left. If you don't like it, you can select another theme from the same menu -- the previous theme was "Dashboard".

Hi All, I've added a new default skin to the forums, as you can probably see. The goal is to make the forums friendlier for late night chatting. Enjoy. -Daniel

Everyone, Learn about the many builds of Funtoo Linux, and the new Web UI available to browse them all: http://www.funtoo.org/News:The_Many_Builds_of_Funtoo_Linux Best Regards, Daniel

Nope, you're not the only one. I use it too. Brushdemon and h3nnn4n now have screenshots on the main funtoo.org page ;)