666threesixes666

hi welcome to the forums.  i also am a former slackware user.  i did a bit of distro hopping and eventually landed here.  that kind of machine i would build over ssh, and take your time.  boot live media, setup ssh, and ssh into the live media.  have a more powerful gui work station or what ever sshed in, then get screen going on the live media so you can detach the terminals, and leave the system to work in the background.
 
i think of installing funtoo as like parting together a linux system.  you use another live distro temporarily either directly or by ssh, mount the drive and chroot to it's mount point then you can directly repair any problems or fix anything from the chroot.  if the system doesn't boot correctly re load chroot, and work on it.
 
on the new funtoo computer im building the os on to, i partition, and format the hard drive, i install the stage3, a kernel, and a boot loader.  once i get that running stable, booting properly with networking, and everything going well, tada i reboot into a working funtoo machine.  i emerge everything else i want, and set everything else up like gui, and sound from the funtoo machine, rather than chroot.  once that is up you can turn ssh on and work on the funtoo system from anywhere headless.  you'll probably want to run that older machine as a server.
 
i use xubuntu 14.04 live for chrooting on my machine when i install/reinstall/repair it, i dont bother with ssh or other machines anymore.  your core 2 machine could handle gui live media so you could chroot from debian live media easily.  the core2 machine could probably handle usb live media too.  from the live media you can look at the wiki and forums about building what ever, or troubleshoot packages you're having problems with and have access to the funtoo system under the live media via chroot.
 
i like xubuntu because its set to go for many situations including wifi, where i found debian is a little lean to be using as a repair Swiss army knife.  i like the alternate media because its less hoops to jump through and you're already comfortable with it.  it would probably be a good idea for you to gist the mounting/chrooting commands you use to load up funtoo on github, and give it good tags so you could google exactly for the commands from live media.

imgur is known for hosting, and serving unsavory content(porn/gore)....  the links need to be removed from the forum.  sad but true...
 
how to find imgur links:
http://forums.funtoo.org/index.php?app=core&module=search&search_in=forums
(or advanced search)
then look for "imgur" with out the "" marks.....
 
suitable image hosting sites include:
#upload and go
https://img.bi/
http://tinypic.com/
https://pomf.se/
http://postimage.org/
 
#social media login required or registration
http://photobucket.com/
 
#registration required
https://www.flickr.com/photos/en
https://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com
https://www.pinterest.com/
 
here's a picture of my dead dog from twitter.  its been posted for years.....
 

 
update imgur has been unblacklisted.  things should return to normal in a bit.

our wiki's setup a bit better than arches.  they certainly do have the content part down, but some pages look like wreckage with the excessive warning/dispute templates.  on the main site Go > how to 'wiki' is a really easy way to learn how to wiki stuff @ funtoo.
 
http://www.funtoo.org/Help:Funtoo_Editing_Guidelines
 
vs
 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:Contributing

Hello All,
I want to leave a thank you note here for the developers/maintainers of Funtoo. I wrote a brief summary of my experience with Linux to put my thanks in context. Moderators, if this post is inappropriate for General Funtoo Discussion, please delete it. Systemd fans, if you want to sing it's praises and tell me what an idiot I am, please take it to another thread. This thread is for expressing gratitude.

I am really impressed with Funtoo! I bounced around between a lot of distros back when I started using linux. Around 2004 I found Gentoo and it was a revelation. No more dependency hell! I had a lot of free time on my hands so I didn't really mind the occasional breakage. The forums were super friendly and helpful, but a year or two after Daniel Robbins retired from the project, the atmosphere changed. The forums became dramatically less friendly and helpful, mostly due to half a dozen or so users, but not only that, even the documentation and package installation notes started to get snarky and unprofessional. Then I heard about Arch.

With pacman I could install software quickly on my old hardware. Things rarely broke and if they did, the forums were civil and the documentation was superb. In my opinion Arch's wiki is still the best of any distro's. But Arch always wants to be on the bleeding edge and I think that's what led them to implement systemd before the implications were fully appreciated. Yeah, Arch's init management sucked compared to OpenRC. It was probably what I missed most from Gentoo. Systemd made simple administration tasks very easy. It had so many features built in. Unix groups became virtually irrelevant. Systemd handled everything. It was great until something broke. Systemd is completely opaque. The unit files have almost no information. Systemd takes the unit file and then does some black magic to start the specified service. I had a problem with the rfkill service. I tried as many ways as I could think of the explicitly unblock my wifi card. I even blacklisted any service I could find that might have anything to do with networking or rkill, but still every time I booted something would block my wifi card. I never did figure it out.
 
On a later Arch install I learned that some users had OpenRC working on Arch and the switch was relatively painless. Alright! This was linux as I remembered it. I had control over what was actually running on my system. Now to uninstall systemd and everything related to it. Wait a minute, cups builds with systemd? Arch had naturally enabled systemd for every package that had a build flag for it. It seemed virtually everything in userspace either depended on systemd or depended on polkit/consolekit or something else that was dependant on systemd. It was time to look for a new distro.

But even Debian decided to go along with Redhat's agenda. It was everywhere! Gentoo seemed like my only option if I wanted rolling releases of relatively recent software, until I read a reddit comment where someone mentioned Funtoo. I tried it out and yes, this was Gentoo without the rough edges I remembered. Important stuff has yet to break for me (knock on wood). It also seems to be Gentoo without the jerks. From what I've read on the forums and experienced on the bug tracker, people are helpful and friendly (though the maintainers seem way overworked :).

I now have a Funtoo box completely devoid of systemd, polkit, consolekit, pulseaudio, avahi, udisks, or any of the other software that seems to be turning Linux into a windows/android-esque "standard base" for easy installation of software through Redhat's appstore. Thank you Funtoo developers and maintainers! Your work is one of the few bright spots in an increasingly grim, increasingly homogeneous distro scene.

 

Reminds me of the proverbial "Red-headed step-child"  LOL

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

Threesixes, I thought you'd like the text I found in another forum as the signature of its administrator.
 
 
WARNING: You are logged into reality as 'root'

logging in as 'insane' is the only safe option.

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'd prefer to clean-up obscure and undocumented python code in portage rather then rewrite it in new lang :)

I'm a newbie yet, but I love Funtoo :)
http://imgur.com/JVKd9KD

Le guide d'installation de Funtoo Linux est maintenant disponible en Fran?ais.
 
http://www.funtoo.org/Install/fr/Guide_Installation_Funtoo_Linux
 
French version of Funtoo Installation now available.
 
Please don't hesitate to highlight any errors, mistakes and the likes. Thank's.

ping 8.8.8.8
ping google.com
ping github.com
 
traceroute github.com

lol now to really rub it in.....  (you could of just ran "make modules_install" and rebooted) LOL i always run them as blocks....  so its line 1...  then line 2....  then line 3....  then line 4....  then line 5.  you'll remember it better in the future by such a painful rebuilding experience.

gnomes a POS under gentoo with systemd.  that's not a bug, its a feature.  ive hated 3x series of gnome, the de should of been renamed and gnome2 migrated to new supporters instead of the mate forking mess.  3.14s classic mode runs good.

you need to emerge -1 networkmanager nm-applet
 
much past that i suggest you give gnome 3.14 a whirl, its classic modes very gnome 2y.
 
personally i abandoned ship to xfce4 which has been a strong running light weight desktop for me for YEARS...  i was running xfce before i figured out gnome2 was a viable solution.
 
gnome 2 / mate / gnome 3 / cinnamon use pulse audio...  i run pulse audio on my xfce4 setup.

im working on making a KILLER programming page.....  its a bit of a mess at the moment. sort of like u of funtoo.  =D  http://www.funtoo.org/Programming

corporations are stupid bro...  they don't like rolling distros because they don't know how to operate them or pay consultants.  the stock market uses gentoo....  were down stream from gentoo.

$ su -
# emerge -DNu world --autounmask-write
# etc-update
(digit "-5" then Return)

# emerge -DNu world --with-bdeps=y

Pretty intense comic! Good art and 80's feel. Thanks for posting.

Like everyone else, I know my desktop is the most beautiful on the planet: http://imgur.com/9baiBBn
Compiz | Lxpanel | SpaceFM | Docky - a no-desktop desktop

Here are two pictures of my Openbox desktop. http://imgur.com/XQsIBru,4sRH0tC#0
 
Big picture:

my xfce4 found ala http://i.imgur.com/4YVxVni.jpg  mines sparkly

my xfce4 found ala http://i.imgur.com/4YVxVni.jpg  mines sparkly

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