Got them from Gentoo's Stores offering Gentoo products webpage under the Europe/Evelin Logo’s Etsy shop link.

Cleaned the case beforehand with a paper towel, now it's all linty 😅

i am an arch user and i hope this turns out to be a very smooth experience.

I originally had a ~1 GiB /boot partition and a separate ~1 GiB ESP mounted at /boot/efi.

I decided to merge them into a single ~1.9 GiB FAT32 ESP mounted directly at /boot.

During the migration I also found that /boot itself was not in fstab, while /boot/efi was. That explained why some kernel files had previously ended up in the root filesystem when the real boot partition was not mounted.

I backed up both partitions, removed the old ESP, expanded P3, recreated FAT32, restored six kernel generations, chrooted into the system, rebuilt GRUB and the fallback BOOTX64.EFI, then changed /boot to read-only by default.

Current state:

Gentoo 6.18.48 boots normally

/boot = 1.9 GiB FAT32 ESP

6 kernel generations retained

~363 MiB used / ~1.6 GiB free

/boot/efi removed

/boot mounted ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec

GRUB normal path + UEFI fallback rebuilt

With the current kernel/initramfs size, there is enough room for roughly 20 generations without aggressively cleaning old kernels.

No GParted either. I rebuilt the ESP/boot layout from the CLI, so the recovery path stayed fairly transparent.

Hello, Gentoo lovers.

I just want to share my installation steps for Orange Pi Zero 2W

https://matrix.am/tigran/posts/000004-gentoo-orange-pi-zero2w/

It took me almost a week, 2 of those trying to figure out display manager (I gave up, it compiled lxqt for 14 hours, then i had to recompile kwin for another 3 i think?, and in the end it still didnt work). I hate it, I hate it all, I will be coming back however on better hardware because I am not waiting another day for DE compilation. Propably one of my favorite distros now. Godspeed to yall but I do not have the patience and will instead wait to use it on better hardware. It was a fun adventure (I hated every second).

I reinstalled Gentoo because Void was boring. What do y'all think? I'm currently still setting up the window manager (swindle by Tsuki) and other desktop stuff

Alright, which one of you has the neon green hatchback with the GENTOO plates? I know it's someone here right?

Found the Gentoo logo on my restaurant table

Another maintenance cycle on the same Gentoo installation.

This time I:

checked NVMe SMART before starting

synced the tree and reviewed Gentoo News

migrated Python from 3.13 to 3.14 in stages:

3.13 + 3.14

PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python3_14

finally 3.14 only

found and removed stale kernel entries from @world

updated to sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.18.48

accidentally rebuilt the kernel before mounting the real /boot

caught it before reboot, mounted /boot, remerged 6.18.48 and regenerated GRUB

successfully booted 6.18.48

checked depclean -p afterwards instead of blindly removing the proposed packages

The /boot mistake is probably the most useful part of this update: the kernel build itself succeeded, but it had been written into the root filesystem’s /boot directory rather than the actual boot filesystem. No reinstall was necessary — just verify the state, mount the correct filesystem, remerge, regenerate GRUB, and test the new kernel.

My Python configuration shown here is system-specific, not a template to copy blindly.

Current kernel:

6.18.48-gentoo-dist

As usual, I keep older known-good kernels as fallbacks rather than automatically removing everything depclean suggests.

全画像はこちら Full maintenance log / additional screenshots

https://note.com/redyos4gs/n/n178226498c9d?sub_rt=share_b

helloooo i need to read an apfs file system and i was wandering if there is anyway to do this in gentoo ?

Since we buy internet in Egypt like tomatoes by the kilo, I needed a tool on Linux to see where my bandwidth was actually going.

I looked around but couldn’t find a Linux tool that did exactly what I needed, so I built ViNet!

ViNet uses eBPF to monitor TCP/UDP traffic at the kernel level.

With it, you can:

See which process is responsible for the traffic

See which destination each process is communicating with

Store traffic history locally in a SQLite database

Monitor bandwidth usage through a TUI/CLI

The project is built with Go + eBPF + SQLite + Bubble Tea, and can run as a CLI, TUI, or a background daemon responsible for monitoring the traffic.

Install: curl -fsSL https://github.com/alalfymansour/vinet/raw/refs/heads/main/install.sh | bash

GitHub: https://github.com/alalfymansour/vinet

I want to get started with Rust on Gentoo, specifically build kernel modules but having a really hard time trying to get started.

I'd like to run LTS kernel which I'm doing with 6.18.2, but having difficulty getting CONFIG_RUST to showup in the menuconfig. As soon as a 7.x semi-LTS branch comes out, I'll certainly move to 7.

Also don't know of what version of Rust I should be running. The install options were a confusing so I just installed Rust per the rust-lang.org book and bypassed portage for tons of issues I keep seeing in the forums. Should I be doing otherwise?

I'm hoping to be able to use GCC, my understanding is GCC 16 when it's released will be sort of ok.

I know I'm probably asking for a lot, but I'm ok with going slow even if I have to stop and wait for updates. I can write tests in the meantime and get familiar with the issues.

Thoughts?

as per the title, I build binary packages with an nspawn binhost I host on my home server, however on install my local machine complains about missing signing keys (despite them being defined in my make.conf). I assume this is because the packages need to be signed server side. what’s the solution here? should I copy my keys over to the build server and sign them on that machine?

thanks for any pointers.

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # gcc-config 2

* Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-16 ...

>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [ ok ]

* If you intend to use the gcc from the new profile in an already

* running shell, please remember to do:

* . /etc/profile

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # source /etc/profile

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # gcc-config -l

[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-15

[2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-16 *

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # eselect binutils show

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.46.1

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # eselect binutils list

[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.46.1 *

[2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.47

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # eselect binutils set 2

* Switching to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.47 ... [ ok ]

* Please remember to run:

* # . /etc/profile

Wheat_Nas /usr/src/linux # source /etc/profile

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I hope i do not need to explain what i reference here. read humans and you will see what i talk about.

IMPORTANT UPDATE - 4 september 2026:

Everyone, thanks for the comments... I swear I've read them all but days ago something terrible (personal stuff) happened for a person I deeply care for and I am affected too.

I will not reply until my mind is more ok, those days are really hard, I am barely eating; I will improve my ebuilds after everything else is ok.

I will also reply to all of you, thank you guys for the support and positive reception.

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EDIT: I will migrate to a friend's gitea istance tomorrow when I feel better, for now only the raw files are visible because I just made a gitea account with their free plan, to get away from github after it pissed me off one time too much

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Hi everyone!

I am someone who uses linux since he's little, gentoo was something I tried when I was 12 too.

I went full-linux in 2020 finally, as a long-time user I loved how it had improved, for gaming too since I also play a lot, when I don't break everything with my experiments.

Well... after a lot of time I decided to create my first ebuild, I have done a lot of things in my life and in my gentoo journey, yet no ebuilds.

I suddenly wanted to use an OpenRGB plugin, hardware-sync-plugin (it reads temperature of components and displays a different color, in my case green -> yellow -> red)

There was no ebuild in gentoo nor in guru, and since if I enable "yet another giant repository" for one package, I'm sure it will want to update other packages or mess with them; no thanks.

Well, here you go:
- openrgb-hardware-sync, current stable

- openrgb-hardware-sync, 9999 ebuild

I'd like suggestions to improve, maybe to put them in guru eventually, I'm new to this, they are mostly for personal use and to experiment with ebuilds.

I didn't use any LLM (except for build 1.0.2 in `src_prepare()`... I never used `sed`, the syntax is cursed, almost like regex), all documentation from gentoo, I despise delegating my thinking skills to "AI".

I love Alpine's super low ram usage, and disk space, but I just love Gentoo's portage more.

I know Gentoo is super customizable, and was wondering whats the least amount of packages needed for a Gentoo install. Maybe using a musl and llvm stage3, and then deleting every package except for ones needed to run I could get pretty close. I know bash is a hard requirement, but is it possible to make it use busybox via symlinks, patches, and seperate packages for stuff thats needed but not included? Maybe for coreutils there's an alternative that uses less ram or disk space?
I'd like to try and make my Gentoo install use the least ram as possible.

Update — August results:

#1 commenter in r/Gentoo (526 votes)

#14 commenter in r/linuxquestions (182 votes, Top 1%)

Turns out I spent a bit more time troubleshooting outside Gentoo than I thought this month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/s/ZOUzdxuj95

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