I find it fascinating how #Gentoo#Linux had an income of about $1,500 per month last year. It's seemingly peanuts for a well established distro with over 400 unique committers (Blender has ~200)! In comparison, Inkscape has an income of ~$7,200 per month and Blender has an income of ~$160,000 per month.
It was just an email, rather than an issue or bug and someone took some efforts to look up my mail and to write me. It made me very happy & we should much more honour the work of others! It reminded me of how much we now take software for granted in our daily life. Things we do and handle our daily business... Even if we don't donate anything or only small amounts, we should always show respect for the time and effort of the author and maintainer. Even a small personalized email can bring great joy :)
The recent release of bcachefs made me wonder about rolling release distributions, updates and filesystem snapshots.
I'm running #Gentoo, and while it happens very, very rarely, world updates sometimes break the system. So, having a filesystem with snapshot support for the root partition might be worthwhile...
I've just converted my root partition to #btrfs, therefore.
I'm not going to try bcachefs on my main PC yet, and btrfs has been running fine on my phone and laptop for years.
I'm not sure what USE flags I need to set to get the network and media modules in my Waybar config to work.
can someone help me figure out which ones I need to get them working? #Linux#Gentoo#Waybar
Gentoo vollzieht den Wandel: Binäre Pfade im Quellcode-Dschungel! Am 29. Dezember 2023 sorgte Gentoo Linux für Aufsehen, als verkündet wurde, dass der altbewährte Paketmanager Portage nicht mehr nur auf Quellcode setzt, sondern nun auch mit binären Paketen jongliert. Ein Schritt, der die Flexibilität steigert, da beide Welten nun harmonisch koexistieren können.
Okay in a bit of a midlife crisis mode, and in part to celebrate 20 years of blogging, I ended up buying the domain that hosted my website 20 years ago, and have it redirect to my current site.
Some of you old school #Gentoo users may remember http://flameeyes.web.ctonet.it/ as it was where I published my additional ebuilds (before we had the concept of overlays) in tarballs (before experimenting with bzr, hg, and git.)
Others might remember the #LIRC patches for Linux 2.6.
Decided to set up and get going with #elfeed so I enabled rss from my Doom config, set up a small #orgmode file with a couple RSS feeds I'm interested in, and then loaded it up. Discovered I didn't compile #emacs with libxml2 support! Easily fixed by heading over to my use file for Emacs, adding a flag to enable compiling libxml2 support, and then re-emerged the package.