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Hi All,
I've created a new YouTube vlog entry for your enjoyment. This one is about the latest shocking news of being let go from a job. View it here -- I appreciate it if you help me get the word out about my channel, send me some upwardly-pointing thumbs and possibly even subscribe! ? Thanks!
Best,
Daniel
 
 

Hi All,
I've created a new YouTube vlog entry for your enjoyment. This one is about the latest shocking news of being let go from a job. View it here -- I appreciate it if you help me get the word out about my channel, send me some upwardly-pointing thumbs and possibly even subscribe! ? Thanks!
Best,
Daniel
 
 

Hi All,
I've created a new YouTube vlog entry for your enjoyment. This one is about the latest shocking news of being let go from a job. View it here -- I appreciate it if you help me get the word out about my channel, send me some upwardly-pointing thumbs and possibly even subscribe! ? Thanks!
Best,
Daniel
 
 

I can provide a container in a few days when I resolve some issues with our new datacenter.

Everyone,
Funtoo Linux 1.3 is now officially released. Check out a detailed description of all the changes here:
https://www.funtoo.org/Release_Notes/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

Everyone,
Funtoo Linux 1.3 is now officially released. Check out a detailed description of all the changes here:
https://www.funtoo.org/Release_Notes/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

I believe the root cause of this is that we used different snapshot dates for various parts of 1.2. We are getting away from this with 1.3, so it should go away with 1.3 when it is released. We'll use a unified snapshot for that release.
However, these issues should be fixed in 1.2 when found, if possible.
If you can point out bugs that you feel were improperly closed without being correctly addressed, I can investigate.

Glad to hear @mantas -- we hope to get 1.3 released officially in another week. Still a lot of issues to fix which you'll get automatically via updates.

Hi All,
Within 12 hours, I plan to move 1.3-release to BETA status.
Along with this comes the very important change on 64-bit platforms -- I am removing multilib and making "pure64" compatibility the default. This means that 1.3-release builds with the x86-64bit arch will be 64-bit only.
This is done for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that the world has had a 64-bit PC instruction set for approximately 15 years. It is time to drop 32-bit support. For those who still need 32-bit support, it will be available via a Funtoo 32-bit chroot setup.
The story behind multilib is rather complex and interesting, and might be the focus of a future blog post, but for now, you will just have to trust me -- multilib support in Gentoo is a pain in the butt. It takes a lot of effort to work with and slows us down. Our efforts are best spent in other places, and chroot should work for the vast majority of users who truly are running a critical 32-bit application (other options are 32-bit containers, etc.)
EDIT: Upgrade Instructions Here: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

Hi All,
Within 12 hours, I plan to move 1.3-release to BETA status.
Along with this comes the very important change on 64-bit platforms -- I am removing multilib and making "pure64" compatibility the default. This means that 1.3-release builds with the x86-64bit arch will be 64-bit only.
This is done for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that the world has had a 64-bit PC instruction set for approximately 15 years. It is time to drop 32-bit support. For those who still need 32-bit support, it will be available via a Funtoo 32-bit chroot setup.
The story behind multilib is rather complex and interesting, and might be the focus of a future blog post, but for now, you will just have to trust me -- multilib support in Gentoo is a pain in the butt. It takes a lot of effort to work with and slows us down. Our efforts are best spent in other places, and chroot should work for the vast majority of users who truly are running a critical 32-bit application (other options are 32-bit containers, etc.)
EDIT: Upgrade Instructions Here: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

One of the things I am pushing for is for Portage to grab any installed conflicting packages and add them to the package set automatically, before backtracking at all. This is likely going to resolve the majority of conflicts automatically. The upstream gentoo bug for this feature is https://bugs.gentoo.org/559354 <-- and I am thinking of something like an --expand option that will auto-add installed packages that conflict to the set of packages to be rebuilt, so users don't have to. If you think this would be a good idea, you may want to comment on the upstream bug and this may result in it being prioritized.

Hi, everyone!
mysql-community-8.0.12 added in 1.3-release. This is Oracle's MySQL-8 major release. Please, notice, that this package cannot be installed with mysql (replacing). It also has certain incompatibilities with older  versions of mysql and databases, created.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-12.html

Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that we are now offering official Funtoo AWS images in the AWS Marketplace:
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07KT3VN7Q/
Please test them out. They are optimized for specific instance types to offer the best performance possible in AWS. Please leave us a positive review (or file a bug ? ) and take advantage of these free images to Funtoo-ize AWS and advance the benefits of building software from source, optimized for the underlying CPU architecture -- Funtoo style!
Best,
Daniel

The 1.0 release of Funtoo Linux is not going to be maintained after September 30, 2018. So please be sure to upgrade your systems to Funtoo Linux 1.2 using https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions so that you will continue to get updates!
We will also be starting development on Funtoo Linux 1.3 in a few days, on August 31. We are moving to a new agile (scrum) process, where we will be doing 1-week sprints (time-constrained sets of work). Our work will include some portion of fixes for 1.2 and some new work on 1.3. When we as a team decide that 1.3 is ready for various milestones (alpha, beta, release candidate) we will mark it as such. Thus, we have no hard deadline for 1.3 as I do not want to try to hit arbitrary dates that are not based on the actual work. But we will get there, sooner rather than later!

Hi All,
Within 12 hours, I plan to move 1.3-release to BETA status.
Along with this comes the very important change on 64-bit platforms -- I am removing multilib and making "pure64" compatibility the default. This means that 1.3-release builds with the x86-64bit arch will be 64-bit only.
This is done for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that the world has had a 64-bit PC instruction set for approximately 15 years. It is time to drop 32-bit support. For those who still need 32-bit support, it will be available via a Funtoo 32-bit chroot setup.
The story behind multilib is rather complex and interesting, and might be the focus of a future blog post, but for now, you will just have to trust me -- multilib support in Gentoo is a pain in the butt. It takes a lot of effort to work with and slows us down. Our efforts are best spent in other places, and chroot should work for the vast majority of users who truly are running a critical 32-bit application (other options are 32-bit containers, etc.)
EDIT: Upgrade Instructions Here: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

Hi All,
Within 12 hours, I plan to move 1.3-release to BETA status.
Along with this comes the very important change on 64-bit platforms -- I am removing multilib and making "pure64" compatibility the default. This means that 1.3-release builds with the x86-64bit arch will be 64-bit only.
This is done for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that the world has had a 64-bit PC instruction set for approximately 15 years. It is time to drop 32-bit support. For those who still need 32-bit support, it will be available via a Funtoo 32-bit chroot setup.
The story behind multilib is rather complex and interesting, and might be the focus of a future blog post, but for now, you will just have to trust me -- multilib support in Gentoo is a pain in the butt. It takes a lot of effort to work with and slows us down. Our efforts are best spent in other places, and chroot should work for the vast majority of users who truly are running a critical 32-bit application (other options are 32-bit containers, etc.)
EDIT: Upgrade Instructions Here: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

Hi All,
Within 12 hours, I plan to move 1.3-release to BETA status.
Along with this comes the very important change on 64-bit platforms -- I am removing multilib and making "pure64" compatibility the default. This means that 1.3-release builds with the x86-64bit arch will be 64-bit only.
This is done for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that the world has had a 64-bit PC instruction set for approximately 15 years. It is time to drop 32-bit support. For those who still need 32-bit support, it will be available via a Funtoo 32-bit chroot setup.
The story behind multilib is rather complex and interesting, and might be the focus of a future blog post, but for now, you will just have to trust me -- multilib support in Gentoo is a pain in the butt. It takes a lot of effort to work with and slows us down. Our efforts are best spent in other places, and chroot should work for the vast majority of users who truly are running a critical 32-bit application (other options are 32-bit containers, etc.)
EDIT: Upgrade Instructions Here: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions/1.3-release
Best,
Daniel

Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that we are now offering official Funtoo AWS images in the AWS Marketplace:
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07KT3VN7Q/
Please test them out. They are optimized for specific instance types to offer the best performance possible in AWS. Please leave us a positive review (or file a bug ? ) and take advantage of these free images to Funtoo-ize AWS and advance the benefits of building software from source, optimized for the underlying CPU architecture -- Funtoo style!
Best,
Daniel

@nrc question answered -- https://www.funtoo.org/FAQ:What_Are_Funtoo_Kits

Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that we are now offering official Funtoo AWS images in the AWS Marketplace:
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07KT3VN7Q/
Please test them out. They are optimized for specific instance types to offer the best performance possible in AWS. Please leave us a positive review (or file a bug ? ) and take advantage of these free images to Funtoo-ize AWS and advance the benefits of building software from source, optimized for the underlying CPU architecture -- Funtoo style!
Best,
Daniel

Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that we are now offering official Funtoo AWS images in the AWS Marketplace:
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07KT3VN7Q/
Please test them out. They are optimized for specific instance types to offer the best performance possible in AWS. Please leave us a positive review (or file a bug ? ) and take advantage of these free images to Funtoo-ize AWS and advance the benefits of building software from source, optimized for the underlying CPU architecture -- Funtoo style!
Best,
Daniel

Hey Everyone,
We have a new FAQ developed that allows you to more easily browse answers. See:
https://www.funtoo.org/FAQ
You can also submit your own FAQ questions which I will answer! ? Hope you enjoy it.
Best,
Daniel

Hello Everyone --
I want to highlight some improvements that have been made to the wiki besides our new FAQ (https://www.funtoo.org/FAQ)
We now have a new Subarches page that is a lot easier to navigate: https://www.funtoo.org/Subarches
And the look of various things like notes, tips, warnings, etc. have been improved for a cleaner, more consistent look. This is a good sample page to browse the new look. Note that you may need to "hard reload" the page to get the new CSS: https://www.funtoo.org/Upgrade_Instructions
Enjoy!
-Daniel
 

Hey, so I think no one is really telling you the obvious -- you found a small bug, and I'm going to fix it with a commit to the profiles so that pclmul is added to CPU_FLAGS_X86 for skylake and skylake-avx512. ?

Hey Everyone,
We are starting to build Funtoo Linux 1.3 ALPHA builds. We will let you know when these are uploaded and ready for testing.
UPDATE: Ryzen 1.3 Alpha builds now available for download and testing: https://build.funtoo.org/1.3-release-std/x86-64bit/amd64-zen/
-Daniel