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Been updating the OS on my old faithful (Panasonic CF-53), as well as setting up Gentoo on the Argon One Up CM5.
Package builds are demonstrably faster on the CM5 than the CF-53. As in big builds like `webkit-gtk` are building a lot faster on the CM5 than they are on the CF-53.
The CF-53 is a Core i5-3320M; hyperthreaded dual-core x86-64 running 2.6GHz, there's 8GB RAM.
The CM5 is a Broadcom BCM2712; quad-core ARM Cortex A76 running at 2.4GHz, and the module I have sports 16GB RAM.The CM5 is leaving the old machine in the dust in all areas except video acceleration… haven't quite got that working in X11 yet (I'll move to Wayland when it's ready… it isn't now for my use case).
I guess I'll know more once I get more of my standard desktop applications up and running.
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Been updating the OS on my old faithful (Panasonic CF-53), as well as setting up Gentoo on the Argon One Up CM5.
Package builds are demonstrably faster on the CM5 than the CF-53. As in big builds like `webkit-gtk` are building a lot faster on the CM5 than they are on the CF-53.
The CF-53 is a Core i5-3320M; hyperthreaded dual-core x86-64 running 2.6GHz, there's 8GB RAM.
The CM5 is a Broadcom BCM2712; quad-core ARM Cortex A76 running at 2.4GHz, and the module I have sports 16GB RAM.The CM5 is leaving the old machine in the dust in all areas except video acceleration… haven't quite got that working in X11 yet (I'll move to Wayland when it's ready… it isn't now for my use case).
I guess I'll know more once I get more of my standard desktop applications up and running.
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Zero days since #CPython broke the extension ABI at the very last minute after asking everyone repeatedly to test prereleases. And of course they don't bother tracking ABI changes in any way, so they could at least give people heads up that important pieces of their system will start segfaulting after the upgrade. All they can offer is a knee-jerk response of "we never promised ABI stability".
And yes, this is a huge PITA for #Gentoo users who opted in to helping out.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/152448#issuecomment-5016129511
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Zero days since #CPython broke the extension ABI at the very last minute after asking everyone repeatedly to test prereleases. And of course they don't bother tracking ABI changes in any way, so they could at least give people heads up that important pieces of their system will start segfaulting after the upgrade. All they can offer is a knee-jerk response of "we never promised ABI stability".
And yes, this is a huge PITA for #Gentoo users who opted in to helping out.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/152448#issuecomment-5016129511
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Also Linux updates
Debian Forky (Linux 7.1.3)
Debian Trixie (Linux 7.0.13)
Pop!_OS (Linux 7.0.11)
Tuxedo OS (Linux 6.17.0) *
CachyOS (Linux 7.1.3-2)
Gentoo Linux (Linux 7.1.4)
*They have an excuse. They are in the process of switching to Debian Testing from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
#linux #screenshot #debian #popos #tuxedoos #cachyos #gentoo
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Also Linux updates
Debian Forky (Linux 7.1.3)
Debian Trixie (Linux 7.0.13)
Pop!_OS (Linux 7.0.11)
Tuxedo OS (Linux 6.17.0) *
CachyOS (Linux 7.1.3-2)
Gentoo Linux (Linux 7.1.4)
*They have an excuse. They are in the process of switching to Debian Testing from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
#linux #screenshot #debian #popos #tuxedoos #cachyos #gentoo
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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Hello there!
PHP 8.6.0alpha2 (cli) (built: Jul 17 2026 10:55:24) (ZTS)
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Hello there!
PHP 8.6.0alpha2 (cli) (built: Jul 17 2026 10:55:24) (ZTS)
Copyright © The PHP Group and Contributors
Built by felsqualle.com
Zend Engine v4.6.0-dev, Copyright © Zend by Perforce
with Zend OPcache v8.6.0alpha2, Copyright ©, by Zend by PerforceAlready prepared for inclusion in #gentoo 😎
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So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
https://github.com/faust-streaming/cChardet/blob/master/src/tests/testdata/zh/gb18030.txt
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So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
https://github.com/faust-streaming/cChardet/blob/master/src/tests/testdata/zh/gb18030.txt
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Migrated from Windows to Linux leaving a Brother P-Touch label printer behind? Your printer may still be useful and work in Linux despite no mfg Linux support.
My decade-old Brother PT-2700 working on Gentoo Linux with both the command-line ptouch-print utility and the graphical ptouch-rs [Rust] application. I also built ptouch-rs successfully on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS "Trixie.".
https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1094
#Linux #Brother #PTouch #LabelPrinter #Gentoo #RaspberryPi #OpenSource
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Migrated from Windows to Linux leaving a Brother P-Touch label printer behind? Your printer may still be useful and work in Linux despite no mfg Linux support.
My decade-old Brother PT-2700 working on Gentoo Linux with both the command-line ptouch-print utility and the graphical ptouch-rs [Rust] application. I also built ptouch-rs successfully on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS "Trixie.".
https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1094
#Linux #Brother #PTouch #LabelPrinter #Gentoo #RaspberryPi #OpenSource
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@decorum @tuxedocomputers Ich bin auch ehrlich gesagt mehr gespannt als ich erst dachte. Meine kräftigeren Systeme sind zwar auf #gentoo, aber ist ist z.B. für den HTPC doch manchmal mehr Aufwand, als mir lieb ist. Und ich habe schon sooooo lange auf eine brauchbare Rolling-Distro auf Basis von Testing* gewartet, dass ich es fix ausprobieren werde.
* Also praktisch seit ich ca. 2006/07 von Debian Testing zu #gentoo bin 🤷♂️
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More bad luck with trying out new distros! I managed to get Gentoo installed, but when I tried to log in to the console, I got a strange error about it not being able to create a seat? I'm not sure what I got wrong this time, so I'm going to give it another try!
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More bad luck with trying out new distros! I managed to get Gentoo installed, but when I tried to log in to the console, I got a strange error about it not being able to create a seat? I'm not sure what I got wrong this time, so I'm going to give it another try!
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PSA: after another major policy violation by user who clearly never cared about #Gentoo and joined only to ignore the rules, I've suspended processing access requests to GURU. We're already working on a new policy, and we'll go from there.
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PSA: after another major policy violation by user who clearly never cared about #Gentoo and joined only to ignore the rules, I've suspended processing access requests to GURU. We're already working on a new policy, and we'll go from there.
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Zero days since 83 #Gentoo developers effectively lost push access over revoked PGP key signatures because of random #LDAP hiccup.
Yes, we have error handling. And yes, we have a safety check in case error handling didn't work and LDAP returned empty list of developers. Yet apparently that's not enough either, so now we also check if the diff between old and new lists isn't too large; you know, in case ldapsearch randomly returned a subset of developers and considered it a success.
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Zero days since 83 #Gentoo developers effectively lost push access over revoked PGP key signatures because of random #LDAP hiccup.
Yes, we have error handling. And yes, we have a safety check in case error handling didn't work and LDAP returned empty list of developers. Yet apparently that's not enough either, so now we also check if the diff between old and new lists isn't too large; you know, in case ldapsearch randomly returned a subset of developers and considered it a success.
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Ok! I have successfully configured a #Gentoo box to work roughly as a Steam Machine! I installed greetd, and configured it to automatically log in as me, and run Steam in Big Picture mode with cage. So you turn on the computer, and (after standard bootup display stuff) it drops you right into a full-screen Steam experience!
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Ok! I have successfully configured a #Gentoo box to work roughly as a Steam Machine! I installed greetd, and configured it to automatically log in as me, and run Steam in Big Picture mode with cage. So you turn on the computer, and (after standard bootup display stuff) it drops you right into a full-screen Steam experience!
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XFCE has been my desktop environment choice for as long as I’ve been using #Linux as anything other than a hobby, but I think I’m going to give COSMIC a try. (Still on #Gentoo, of course. I’m not switching to an Ubuntu fork, and being able to configure my computer to work exactly the way I want is specifically the reason I use Gentoo in the first place.)
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XFCE has been my desktop environment choice for as long as I’ve been using #Linux as anything other than a hobby, but I think I’m going to give COSMIC a try. (Still on #Gentoo, of course. I’m not switching to an Ubuntu fork, and being able to configure my computer to work exactly the way I want is specifically the reason I use Gentoo in the first place.)
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Being away from my PC for a few days was really refreshing. Time to get back to work. Today: taking care of PHP in #gentoo again.
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Being away from my PC for a few days was really refreshing. Time to get back to work. Today: taking care of PHP in #gentoo again.
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I've built a custom kernel and updated my `cmdline.txt` to point `root=` at the Gentoo partition. Damn this thing flies on Gentoo.
I had Debian momentarily on NVMe as I re-arranged things on the eMMC, and didn't notice much of a speed-up, notably opening a terminal window took ~30 seconds or more, whether running from eMMC or NVMe.
On Gentoo, it's practically instant (booting from NVMe).
I have some graphics acceleration issues to sort out in X11, but things are a lot more responsive.
Maybe it's all that `systemd` junk. It certainly isn't my CFLAGS because they're as plain as they come: `-O2 -pipe`.
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I've built a custom kernel and updated my `cmdline.txt` to point `root=` at the Gentoo partition. Damn this thing flies on Gentoo.
I had Debian momentarily on NVMe as I re-arranged things on the eMMC, and didn't notice much of a speed-up, notably opening a terminal window took ~30 seconds or more, whether running from eMMC or NVMe.
On Gentoo, it's practically instant (booting from NVMe).
I have some graphics acceleration issues to sort out in X11, but things are a lot more responsive.
Maybe it's all that `systemd` junk. It certainly isn't my CFLAGS because they're as plain as they come: `-O2 -pipe`.
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Now I need help removing vanilla Firefox (AI, yuck! I installed the AI-free LibreWolf fork) from Redcore (Gentoo fork) Linux. (I migrated from Kubuntu to Redcore to avoid Gen AI.)
It's not in the "Discover" package manager.
I can't find it in Dolphin by searching "Firefox."
Clicking on "Uninstall or manage add-ons" does nothing.
