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Hi All,
 
Many of you have probably seen our new responsive Web site skin for the wiki at www.funtoo.org.
 
I switched to a new bootstrap-based skin which is in turn based on an in-development set of MediaWiki extensions that I'm helping out with.
 
Here are advantages of the new skin:
 
Properly renders on mobile devices Much easier to customize and improve over time Much "cleaner" look Makes it possible to integrate the look of auth.funtoo.org with the wiki. Here are some negatives:
For a while, a few things will not render 100% correctly until tweaked Doesn't look like a "regular" wiki Overall, it is a big positive change as the new bootstrap framework with the extensions is much easier to customize and improve than the "old" MediaWiki skin system. And this effort is also being actively developed so by having funtoo.org use this system, I am better able to test it out, find issues, and contribute to its development.
 
Hope you like it!
 
-Daniel
 
 

All,
 
There is now a great page that will give you an introduction of how to help us add great documentation to the wiki. See here:
 
http://www.funtoo.org/Help:Funtoo_Editing_Guidelines -- also known as "How to 'Wiki'" - linked in the main nav column on the left.
 
Regards,
Daniel

Hi Everyone,
  I am going to be making some changes to the project soon, to fulfill the vision of a user-centric community and also make Funtoo more suitable for enterprise systems.   Here is what I have found. If you have a single Funtoo system, then the continual changes that we receive from Gentoo are probably not a big deal. You do a system update daily or maybe once a week, resolve any issues, and your system continues to work well with a little hand-holding.   However, there is a lot of work being done behind the scenes by angry_vincent and myself to keep things working well. Our tree is created in a totally automated way, but we "fix" things that break as various things in Gentoo are updated.   And there is the problem. The automated Gentoo updates are fine for a single system, but if you like me have 5+ Funtoo systems, you do not update your systems regularly and then the various hand-holding, perl-cleaner, revdep-rebuild and blocker resolution is a huge pain.   And there is another problem... Angry_vincent and I probably spend 90%+ of our Funtoo time on fixing things that are broken, which means we have no time left to actually create new awesome technology to make Funtoo better. Like a boot-update rewrite, or a metro rewrite, all things that I want to get to. Yes, I find a way to sneak in time to do various things but it is not very ideal.   So, for any problem there is a solution. I have a vision of a solution that will give us the ability to have more control over quality, without doing a wholesale fork of all of Gentoo. I don't see the point of forking all of Gentoo... without better planning and technology, we will just duplicate the same problem of continuous rolling release, but have it happen on the Funtoo side. Rolling release is a good thing, but it is not suitable for all users of Funtoo or Gentoo... so we need something that will make Funtoo more capable without working against the benefits of rolling release.   Since I am not only a developer, not only BDFL, but also a *user* of Funtoo Linux (and *that* is what I consider myself first and foremost,) I want Funtoo Linux to work for larger scale deployments. And I want developers and *users* to not be continually burdened with unending ebuild updates and break/fix situations.   So, over the next few weeks, I am going to be reaching out to our small team of staff and get them up to speed on regular Funtoo maintenance so that I can focus my 'Funtoo' time on developing this new system. Not a new distro, but a new way that Funtoo will manage updates that will give us much more control and the ability to focus on strategic initiatives much, much more than we have in the past.   Best Regards,   Daniel

Yep, periodically, systemd dependencies may sneak in from Gentoo. All systemd dependencies are considered bugs in Funtoo Linux. If a bug doesn't exist already, open a bug on bugs.funtoo.org and we'll fix it as soon as we can.

Hi Everyone,
  I am going to be making some changes to the project soon, to fulfill the vision of a user-centric community and also make Funtoo more suitable for enterprise systems.   Here is what I have found. If you have a single Funtoo system, then the continual changes that we receive from Gentoo are probably not a big deal. You do a system update daily or maybe once a week, resolve any issues, and your system continues to work well with a little hand-holding.   However, there is a lot of work being done behind the scenes by angry_vincent and myself to keep things working well. Our tree is created in a totally automated way, but we "fix" things that break as various things in Gentoo are updated.   And there is the problem. The automated Gentoo updates are fine for a single system, but if you like me have 5+ Funtoo systems, you do not update your systems regularly and then the various hand-holding, perl-cleaner, revdep-rebuild and blocker resolution is a huge pain.   And there is another problem... Angry_vincent and I probably spend 90%+ of our Funtoo time on fixing things that are broken, which means we have no time left to actually create new awesome technology to make Funtoo better. Like a boot-update rewrite, or a metro rewrite, all things that I want to get to. Yes, I find a way to sneak in time to do various things but it is not very ideal.   So, for any problem there is a solution. I have a vision of a solution that will give us the ability to have more control over quality, without doing a wholesale fork of all of Gentoo. I don't see the point of forking all of Gentoo... without better planning and technology, we will just duplicate the same problem of continuous rolling release, but have it happen on the Funtoo side. Rolling release is a good thing, but it is not suitable for all users of Funtoo or Gentoo... so we need something that will make Funtoo more capable without working against the benefits of rolling release.   Since I am not only a developer, not only BDFL, but also a *user* of Funtoo Linux (and *that* is what I consider myself first and foremost,) I want Funtoo Linux to work for larger scale deployments. And I want developers and *users* to not be continually burdened with unending ebuild updates and break/fix situations.   So, over the next few weeks, I am going to be reaching out to our small team of staff and get them up to speed on regular Funtoo maintenance so that I can focus my 'Funtoo' time on developing this new system. Not a new distro, but a new way that Funtoo will manage updates that will give us much more control and the ability to focus on strategic initiatives much, much more than we have in the past.   Best Regards,   Daniel

Perl 5.18 has hit the Portage tree, as we unfork perl to align with Gentoo.
 
The upgrade process is somewhat painful. Many dev-perl ebuilds will need to be rebuilt by running "perl-updater --modules".
 
Those ebuilds that have EAPI=5 set will not need rebuilding, but those with EAPI=4 or below will need perl-updater to help them along.
 
Apologies for any inconvenience in updating. I am going to make some changes to provide a more solid platform in the future.
 
-Daniel

I have created a new "skeleton overlay" that you can use as the basis for your own overlay. See here:
 
https://github.com/funtoo/skeleton-overlay

Okay. I will be working on resources for new developers. Flora was run as sort of a side-project, and that was probably not the best approach. An effort like that needs to be fully integrated into the main Funtoo Linux project, which I will do. That should solve the problem by ensuring that your work is paid more attention to and you are given the resources you need to be successful and learn.

:) You're welcome.
 
I am going to continue working on our documentation to help train new developers.

Hi Everyone,
 
As I hope you've probably noticed, I've put a herculean amount of effort into Funtoo Linux over the past couple of months. I' have:
 
Rebuilding our infrastructure from scratch, on new equipment re-launched Funtoo Hosting launched new forums, wrote Funtoo's own LDAP server for authentication upgraded our wiki launched our new ebuild pages Started massively cleaning up our online documentation Fixed GNOME building Launched the kernel-seeds.org wiki Went on a massive bug fixing rampage. And Oleg has also been busy, fixing things when needed (which is often) and migrating Funtoo to eudev.
 
The project is going in a really good direction, and we are now ready to accelerate development and keep moving forward, close more bugs and make Funtoo more and more robust. We need to grow the team and have more people helping out on the wiki, helping maintain ebuilds, and helping with various other things. To learn how you can help, see: 
 
http://www.funtoo.org/How_to_Dev#How_to_Develop_--_The_Quick_Summary
 
That page explains how to get more involved. We're at the point where we're going to be more reliant on your involvement as we grow... our team needs to get a bit bigger yet.
 
See how you can get involved and we will talk to you soon :)

Everyone, I rebooted the funtoo infrastructure today for an important security update.
 
All services are now back online.
 
Best Regards,
 
Daniel

Agreed. I'm working on some improvements here.

Hi All,
  It's the opinion of the BDFL (yours truly) that if you experience blockers or unresolved dependencies when trying to emerge something, that's a bug.    Please report all blockers that you encounter to bugs.funtoo.org so we can address them properly.   Anything that makes it difficult for you to get packages installed that you need is either a bug or a potential improvement to Funtoo Linux.   Thank you,   Daniel Robbins

Thanks for your reply. nomodeset didn't work for me. Your advice was helpful and I made sure my settings were right, so thank you for that :).
 
Unfortunately, it still didn't work. So I decided to try something different.
 
I ended up finding a fix! I'm now able to boot in correctly. I believe this is a fix for someone that's exhausted all possible kernel trials. I'm assuming this is a funtoo grub packaging problem or something was wrong with my grub.cfg. It's just weird because grub was loading fine, that is why I assumed kernel error.
 
Here is what I did to fix it:
emerge --unmerge grub Added a local overlay, something like /usr/local/portage is good. Added gentoo's version of grub to the overlay. It was also a newer version than funtoo's. emerge -va grub grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Restarted and was able to get into my system. If anyone has any idea why the funtoo grub didn't work for me, let me know.

Okay. I will be working on resources for new developers. Flora was run as sort of a side-project, and that was probably not the best approach. An effort like that needs to be fully integrated into the main Funtoo Linux project, which I will do. That should solve the problem by ensuring that your work is paid more attention to and you are given the resources you need to be successful and learn.

Thanks. laptop-mode-tools causing the panic. I have disabled them and problem was gone. Will try to fix configuration of laptop-mode-tools.

Hi Everyone,
 
As I hope you've probably noticed, I've put a herculean amount of effort into Funtoo Linux over the past couple of months. I' have:
 
Rebuilding our infrastructure from scratch, on new equipment re-launched Funtoo Hosting launched new forums, wrote Funtoo's own LDAP server for authentication upgraded our wiki launched our new ebuild pages Started massively cleaning up our online documentation Fixed GNOME building Launched the kernel-seeds.org wiki Went on a massive bug fixing rampage. And Oleg has also been busy, fixing things when needed (which is often) and migrating Funtoo to eudev.
 
The project is going in a really good direction, and we are now ready to accelerate development and keep moving forward, close more bugs and make Funtoo more and more robust. We need to grow the team and have more people helping out on the wiki, helping maintain ebuilds, and helping with various other things. To learn how you can help, see: 
 
http://www.funtoo.org/How_to_Dev#How_to_Develop_--_The_Quick_Summary
 
That page explains how to get more involved. We're at the point where we're going to be more reliant on your involvement as we grow... our team needs to get a bit bigger yet.
 
See how you can get involved and we will talk to you soon :)

Thanks for all the long hours!

Everyone,
 
There have been some major changes to the Portage tree. I spent nearly all weekend and more hacking away to adjust to the various multilib changes in upstream Gentoo, as well as getting GNOME 3.6 to function again.
 
MANY issues related to this were fixed, but you will also likely experience a few quirks due to all the changes. For anything that is unpleasant or sub-optimal, please report a bug at http://bugs.funtoo.org.
 
Thanks for using Funtoo! :)
 
-Daniel

Here are some cool forums tricks...
 
Did you know you can change the background image? Click the paintbrush in the upper right.
 
Have you played around with your profile? Uploaded a header image for your profile? Customized your avatar? (It will default to gravatar.)
 
-Daniel

Situation improved alot I  now just encounter issues related to my more or less clunky setup, thank you very much guys!

Hi to all; excuse me but I don't know if that is the correct site for my thought:
I've 3 Os on my system: win 8.1, Fedora 20 and Funtoo Linux.
My father that borned in 1938 (and don't know about infomatics systems) tells to me that Funtoo is your preferred system for speedness and simplicity of usage :P
I hope this information will please you :D to me is a satisfaction  :)   Hello to all ..... :)

I just completed a marathon session of wiki updates, which included:
 
Updating our incredibly outdated FAQ.... http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ
Updating our Funtoo Profiles page: http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_1.0_Profile
 
And then updating our main wiki page to try to do a better job for people -- linking to the Funtoo Linux Vision, as well as FAQ, and go into detail in the Distinctives section, so people know how Funtoo differs from other Linux distributions in general as well as Gentoo specifically.
 
Overall, I think the main page is shaping up... the goal is to get people up-to-speed quickly and over to useful information on other pages.

I just completed a marathon session of wiki updates, which included:
 
Updating our incredibly outdated FAQ.... http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ
Updating our Funtoo Profiles page: http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_1.0_Profile
 
And then updating our main wiki page to try to do a better job for people -- linking to the Funtoo Linux Vision, as well as FAQ, and go into detail in the Distinctives section, so people know how Funtoo differs from other Linux distributions in general as well as Gentoo specifically.
 
Overall, I think the main page is shaping up... the goal is to get people up-to-speed quickly and over to useful information on other pages.

I just completed a marathon session of wiki updates, which included:
 
Updating our incredibly outdated FAQ.... http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ
Updating our Funtoo Profiles page: http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_1.0_Profile
 
And then updating our main wiki page to try to do a better job for people -- linking to the Funtoo Linux Vision, as well as FAQ, and go into detail in the Distinctives section, so people know how Funtoo differs from other Linux distributions in general as well as Gentoo specifically.
 
Overall, I think the main page is shaping up... the goal is to get people up-to-speed quickly and over to useful information on other pages.