shamus397

There has been a lot of updates to Funtoo Linux 1.4 since its release -- most of these not officially announced. So it would be a good idea to make an official announcement of many of them:
SELinux Updates Firefox and Firefox-bin 69, updated thunderbird. New gfxcard-nvidia-legacy mix-in for older drivers. Updated NVIDIA drivers to latest releases. Conky updated. kde-plasma merge fixes. mesa merge fixes and version bump. ffpmeg updated to latest release, with fixes for arm-64bit. Latest Spotify release added. Openrc net-online major improvements. New Language added: crystal (check it out) debian-sources/debian-sources-lts updates and now compile using your -march settings (since custom-cflags is now enabled by default.) Prior to this they compiled using generic 64-bit optimizations on x86-64bit. New encrypted-root mix-in to be used to enable LUKS in genkernel/debian-sources(-lts). To use, enable this mix-in and re-build your debian-sources(-lts) kernel. Rust-kit is now at 1.37-prime New dev-lua/lua and fixes for lua-using packages. Ebuilds using lua-5.2+ should use the new dev-lua/lua ebuild (not the legacy dev-lua/lua.) fwupd bumped to 1.3.1 nginx, nginx-unit, dovecot, php, mariadb vivaldi updated dovecot updated Anything I forgot? Follow up in this discussion thread. MANY OF THESE FIXES WERE SUBMITTED BY OUR USERS! Thanks to bcowan, perfinion, jhan, tux, tczaude, KlipKyle, scottfurry and anyone I forgot to mention for making Funtoo better for everyone ? ? ?

I just fixed login-related issues. Funtoo users who had not used the forums before were unable to log in.
I've also fixed the password reset link to go to our official password reset page, as well as the create account link. So logins should be working well.
One note is that if you were are user of the old forums, and you changed your 'displayname' to show something other than your username, then your forums account username will be your displayname. You can alternatively try logging in with your email as your username instead.
Everyone else should be good to go using their funtoo username (and password, of course) to log in here.

Hi All,
The Funtoo Linux 1.2 release is now available for use. Many of us are now running Funtoo Linux 1.2. Here's how to upgrade your system to Funtoo Linux 1.2. Note that soon, 1.2 will be the "default" version of Funtoo Linux. For now, you need to perform certain steps to switch over. We're doing this so that power users can switch over right away, and so we can make things a lot easier for less-experienced users to upgrade to Funtoo Linux 1.2. One of the features I have been working on behind-the-scenes is an "easy upgrade" functionality for ego, to perform big updates automatically. This functionality is not yet ready, but is being worked on. When this "easy upgrade" functionality is ready, 1.2 will be released via "easy upgrade" to systems who have not yet upgraded.
For now, power users can upgrade by performing the following steps. First, select the new kits in your /etc/ego.conf:
[kits] core-kit = 1.2-prime security-kit = 1.2-prime kde-kit = 5.12-prime media-kit = 1.2-prime java-kit = 1.2-prime ruby-kit = 1.2-prime haskell-kit = 1.2-prime lisp-scheme-kit = 1.2-prime lang-kit = 1.2-prime dev-kit = 1.2-prime desktop-kit = 1.2-prime Then, perform the following steps, as root:
# ego sync This will activate the new kits. Now, if you have a /etc/portage/repos.conf/funtoo symlink, remove it:
# rm /etc/portage/repos.conf/funtoo Next,
# emerge -u1 gcc This will upgrade gcc. Next,
# emerge -u1 glibc libnsl libtirpc rpcsvc-proto Glibc will now be upgraded. Next,
# emerge -auDN @system This will upgrade your core system set of packages. Next,
# emerge -auDN @world This will upgrade all other packages. Next,
# emerge @preserved-rebuild This will rebuild packages that are linked to old libraries. Now, final step:
# revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6' -- --exclude sys-devel/gcc This will rebuild all remaining packages that need to be linked against the new libstdc++.
At this point, you are now upgraded to Funtoo Linux 1.2! Please report any bugs to https://bugs.funtoo.org and let us know of any issues you experience, either as part of the upgrade, related to dependencies, or related to functionality on your upgraded system.
Best,
Daniel Robbins

Thanks for all the hard work guys, it works great!

I wish I had the graphic talent to provide you with something worthy.  I did a search for appropriate symbols for systemd but this is all I could find...
 

 
Credit: http://www.codekid.net/index.php?itemid=2026

Daniel and I were talking about development on the wiki and thought that it would be amusing to put an image on the mainpage that said something along the lines of "Funtoo Linux: Proud to be systemd free." Would any of you be willing to make this image? I was thinking that something along these lines would be really cool: 

I answered this in #funtoo, but, just for the record, I would like to state that nothing critical is missing. GNOME 3.12 in Funtoo is the full experience with minimal divergence.