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  1. Funtoo now has Official Steam Docker Images

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    Hi everyone,

    Since the 1.4 release, we have technically supported running Steam under Funtoo using LXD, docker or chroot, but we didn't really have an official build of Steam or official instructions, so a lot was left to the user and I know this was frustrating for a lot of people.

    When I realized that Steam setup was an ongoing, painful, still unresolved issue, I started work on an official set of instructions for setting up Steam, and I wasn't happy with the existing documentation out on the Interwebs for getting this set up, so I had to create our own reliable solution for this. The fruit of this effort is that we now have an official Steam Docker image for use on NVIDIA systems, as well as official setup instructions here:

    https://www.funtoo.org/Steam

    This is now the *official* way to install Steam on Funtoo. If you use our GNOME stage3, you are 95% of the way to getting Steam up and running, audio and all. If it's not working for you, open a bug, and we'll work on fixing the bug. No longer are you left to try to figure this out on your own or troubleshoot on your own.

    Also note that getting NVIDIA acceleration in containers working properly is a lot more complex than Open Source drivers. You should expect an Open Source edition of the Docker image to appear soon, along with similar detailed and officially-supported instructions.

    Enjoy! And let me know how it works (you can post in the Announcements Discussion forum)

    -Daniel

  3. [Solved] useradd refuses to create a user when LXD is configured with subuid/subgid

    in General Help

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    OK, interesting, this means that as you found, the defaults in login.defs are not wonderful.

    From the useradd man page (see bolded part):

    SUB_GID_MIN (number), SUB_GID_MAX (number), SUB_GID_COUNT (number)
               If /etc/subuid exists, the commands useradd and newusers (unless the user already have subordinate group IDs) allocate SUB_GID_COUNT unused group IDs from the range SUB_GID_MIN to SUB_GID_MAX for each new user.

    So this means, when you created /etc/subuid, you magically enabled useradd to try to start assigning subuid ranges to new users. And by default, its subuid range conflicts with the one in our LXD docs -- LXD eats up this range.

    There is no point for useradd to be assigning subuids and subgids to new users it creates by default. It's a cool feature if you need it, I guess, but it should be off by default.

    So /etc/login.defs should have SUB_GID_COUNT and SUB_UID_COUNT set to 0 by default.

    Also see bcowan's bug report and my response here: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-6773

     

     

  4. Funtoo is now on Discord

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    For those who may not understand the embracing of next-gen communication clients... it's really not about the technology here.

    We have people who use Discord and Telegram already, and do not like IRC.

    I, personally, am really enjoying the newer communities over freenode. I feel like there's too much rumors/OSS politics on freenode these days. I spend my time on freenode dealing with this crap rather than having fun and moving Funtoo forward.

    I see too much weird community dynamics -- too much drama, and we're sitting right next to the Gentoo channels and there is often unpleasant "overspray" I need to deal with -- things like "hey drobbins, did you see that person X is saying thing Y about Funtoo and/or you in channel Z?" Then I feel obligated to personally deal with it.

    If you are someone who loves freenode and the freenode community, you should be there. I have been using freenode since before it was called freenode. I remember when lilo (now deceased, and relentlessly attacked by his detractors) ran the show. Freenode, despite its reputation for being the place on the Internet for OSS-related chat, has always been a rough place socially to some degree.

    The truth is that there are a lot of options for Funtoo users to find a community that works for them, and I'm really happy to be not just on Discord but on Telegram too:

    https://t.me/funtoolinux

    The important thing is to find a community that is a positive environment for you, that gives you energy rather than takes it away, so for these reasons I am very glad for Discord and now Telegram and think everyone should be too ?

    The newer technology is also nice -- like being able to edit posts, post actual screenshots into the channel for support purposes, funny gifs, voice support, *amazing mobile clients*, etc etc etc.

    -Daniel

     

  5. GNOME Stages (and LXD images) now available

    in News and Announcements

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    Everyone,

    GNOME stages are now officially part of Funtoo.

    These beefy stages (that was a Larry the Cow pun) weigh in at about 1.4GB and include the following goodies:

    • GNOME 3.32
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Popular graphics drivers already enabled
    • metalog, vim, linux-firmware
    • Same debian-sources-lts kernel that is in our regular stage3
    • multicast DNS/avahi enabled by default

    The install docs have been updated to include references to these new GNOME stages. You can find them for download on the Subarch pages or on https://build.funtoo.org.

    Also note that we should now have LXD images for every subarch which will allow you to set up optimized Funtoo-in-Funtoo environments using LXD.

    Of course, these are fully optimized stages and we plan to continue to offer these moving forward.

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  6. How do you ensure privacy in this day and age?

    in General Discussion

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    On 10/1/2019 at 7:23 PM, walterw said:

    1. The source may not be reputable and information legitimate.  It can plant an idea in your head.
     

    You and I are on the cusp of a political discussion here ? but I would argue that even "reputable" sites these days are spewing propaganda, so there is no substitute for critical thinking. We do not live in an ethical age. Whether intentional or the result of our modern echo chamber, there is misleading information EVERYWHERE online and I couldn't really tell you ANY trustworthy source of information that I would tell you that you could trust implicitly. Even Associated Press and Reuters seem horribly compromised and full of spin! Every journalist seems to want to write an atomic bomb of a news story and go though such extreme lengths to try to inject bias while remaining 'factual' -- it would be comical if it weren't so sad. Assuming a posture of skepticism and "it's probably not as bad as it sounds" is highly recommended when looking at sources of information online. Politics is the art of getting a ton of people pissed off and then leveraging that energy -- and doing this online is known to be extremely effective. So you just have to be wary. Don't be a pawn.

    Now, as for the other issues you raised, I guess I can read and think about those now that I've vented ?

  8. characters in terminator are squished together [SOLVED]

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Frankly I am not sure. Probably what I would do is emerge liberation-fonts, and then see if the problem goes away. Then emerge another font set if that doesn't solve it, see if that fixes it. It is probably a very common font set and I'd bet it's liberation-fonts.

    I don't think strace will show you what you want. There is already a catalog of fonts, and I don't think it's going to try to do any IO to load the font it needs. It will just look in the catalog and see it's not available.

  9. characters in terminator are squished together [SOLVED]

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by drobbins

    @walterw you have found a legitimate bug.

    I have seen this issue as well but have not fixed it yet.

    My guess is that it is caused by GNOME missing a font set like Liberation Fonts which it uses by default. So I believe the ultimate solution is to conclusively determine what font is missing and then add this as a dependency of the terminal app and/or GNOME itself.

    I believe that is a correct fix. What you have done -- while it works -- is a workaround. It should just work by default, with no workaround required.

  22. What is the proper way to use Gentoo ebuilds?

    in Portage Help

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    @lefsha Funtoo *does* include ALL ebuilds from Gentoo -- I think it is just a matter of trying to understand the difference between Funtoo and Gentoo.

    Funtoo Linux 1.4 is based on a 21 Jun 2019 snapshot of Gentoo Linux, plus a variety of package updates in selected areas. Such as: GNOME 3.32, gcc 9.2.0 default, latest mesa, libglvnd enabled by default, Debian kernels, nginx, mariadb, other server packages, etc, etc. updated by me as well as Funtoo Users. So think "Funtoo = Gentoo snapshot + goodies."

    In general, you should have everything in Gentoo automatically, at least what was in Gentoo at the time of the snapshot. And key areas of Funtoo that users wanted updates for -- they submitted pull requests to code.funtoo.org to update these packages.

    If a package is out of date, no problem -- submit a pull request (PR) to code.funtoo.org, and it will be updated.

    When we start Funtoo Linux 2.0 development, we will use a Gentoo snapshot from late 2019 as the foundation for the next release. The goal is to do this every 3 months. We are working on picking up the pace of our release model and things are starting to move very, very quickly, so I wouldn't worry too much about Funtoo being 'behind' Gentoo. See https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/2998-14-even-more-new-stuff/ for info on what has been added in the last 20 days.

    Funtoo Linux is a semi-rolling release, with actual true releases. Once you get used to it, it shouldn't be an issue, but maybe a pull request is in your future?

    Best,

    Daniel

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