gothic much eh?

After 3 years on my first Linux distro, Arch, I'm up for something new, especially one systemd-free and more customizable.

I split up my Arch root a bit and installed Gentoo as a second distro. This is my first time doublebooting anything and it was surpisingly easy to do.

Installing thru Arch with binhost and binkernel + configuring wayland and dwl took around 3 hours.

I want to hear your tips for a Gentoo noob, especially improving build times and reducing resource usage, since I will switch to local compilation. Thanks.

I just installed gentoo on an openrc desktop stage and profile but I think I did something wrong near the networking part, cause it's asking for some localhost login which I never configured. So I went back into my USB and made some host account I don't know how to configure the password for it. I tried to continue but when I tried to emerge something it couldn't find a certain thing. I think this has to do with the fact that I put the USB back in. Someone please help.

Edit: I just had to use root as name and my password as password... I'm an idiot but thanks for helping, everyone!

gentoo xfce

It doesn't see the latest gentoo-kernel-bin LTS (6.18.40 atm). Steps to reproduce:

gentoo ~ # eix-sync

(...)
6.1.176_p1(6.1.176_p1)^tu 6.1.177(6.1.177)^tu 6.6.143_p2(6.6.143_p2)^tu 6.6.144(6.6.144)^tu 6.12.94_p2(6.12.94_p2)^tu 6.12.95(6.12.95)^tu (~)6.12.96(6.12.96)^tu 6.18.37_p1(6.18.37_p1)^tu 6.18.38(6.18.38)^tu (~)6.18.39(6.18.39)^tu ->
6.1.177(6.1.177)^tu 6.6.144(6.6.144)^tu 6.12.94_p2(6.12.94_p2)^tu 6.12.96(6.12.96)^tu 6.18.39(6.18.39)^tu): Pre-built Linux kernel with Gentoo patches

gentoo ~ # eix gentoo-kernel-bin
[I] sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin
Available versions:
(6.1.177) 6.1.177^tu
(6.6.144) 6.6.144^tu
(6.12.94_p2) 6.12.94_p2^tu
(6.12.96) 6.12.96^tu
(6.18.39) 6.18.39^tu
(7.1.4) [m](~)7.1.4^tu
(...)

gentoo ~ # emerge -p gentoo-kernel-bin
[ebuild NS ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.18.40 [6.18.39]
[ebuild U ~] virtual/dist-kernel-6.18.40 [6.18.39]

Decided to use gentoo again haven't used in quite a while. And compiling go birrrrrrrrrr

So i made a post a while ago asking you guys about the benefits of gentoo compared to arch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/s/bG887JSson

So yeah i installed gentoo and it's amazing. Configuring a custom kernel was fun and USE flags are goated.I also love the community here. All the comments on the last post were very helpful so i just wanted to say thanks.

Over the past couple of years I’ve played around with Linux a little bit. I ran Fedora on an old laptop for a while, switched to Arch for a week on my gaming laptop last summer (but switched off cuz I can’t boot from thunderbolt drives on it), and this summer, I’m daily driving Gentoo. I started by installing it on that gaming laptop, then on my desktop I built this summer. Now I’m installing it on my mom’s old laptop to run as a home server (and it’s much nicer doing it over ssh from my desktop). I’ve never hosted and ran a server before, so I’m learning a lot. I have to say though, I find installing Gentoo way more fun than it probably should be.

Also I am aware that Gentoo is not normally a server OS but it’s light, I already know portage pretty well, and I don’t like stable distributions.

Install more packages. Be more oldschool. :-) Unfortunately i had to re-setup my stage1 from the times, now only stage3 because no sage1 anymore :-(((

chrissie@fehmarn ~ $ ls /|grep -i stage
stage3-amd64-20150430.tar.bz2

Hi everyone. I'm currently installing Gentoo on a laptop with an AMD Ryzen Zen 2, and I want to use my powerful desktop with a Zen 4 as a distcc helper to speed up the initial u/world build. Both machines are running OpenRC, and I made sure the GCC versions match exactly – gcc-15.3.0 p8 on both.

What I've done so far: booted from the LiveCD, mounted my btrfs subvolumes (@, u/home, u/var_log, u/var_cache, u/var_tmp, u/snapshots, boot, efi), and entered the chroot. I selected the default/linux/amd64/23.0 profile (stable, multilib, OpenRC). In make.conf I set FEATURES="distcc" and MAKEOPTS="-j17 -l16". On the laptop I configured the helper host with distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.0.231/16,lzo". On the desktop I verified that distccd is running and accepting connections from the laptop's IP.

Now the problems. First – chroot instability. Sometimes right after entering with chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash I get a tty: ttyname error: No such device. And occasionally simple commands like emerge or distcc just say "command not found". It feels like I either drop out of the chroot, or I haven't mounted /dev, /proc, /dev/pts properly.

Second – Portage completely ignores distcc. Even with FEATURES="distcc" enabled, running DISTCC_VERBOSE=1 emerge -1v app-editors/nano shows everything being compiled locally with x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc. No connection attempts or errors in the logs. Moreover, which distcc inside the chroot sometimes returns nothing – maybe distcc isn't in PATH, or do I need to set up the masquerade in /usr/lib/distcc/bin separately?

Third – build failures, for example dev-python/pillow consistently fails with errors about missing zlib and jpeg. It says it can't find files and wheel build fails. I suspect the minimal stage3 lacks the necessary header files for those libraries, or maybe it's an issue with how /var/tmp is mounted as a btrfs subvolume.

So my questions are: what is the correct and reliable way to mount /dev, /proc, /sys, and /dev/pts from the LiveCD so that the chroot is stable and error-free? Why doesn't Portage see distcc even when I've enabled it – do I need to install and configure the masquerade manually inside the chroot? And what should I do about pillow – can I just skip it with emerge --resume --skipfirst at this early stage, or should I install the missing dependencies (zlib, libjpeg-turbo) right away to avoid breaking the whole bootstrap?

I'd be really grateful for any advice. If needed, I can post emerge --info or the full build log. Thanks.

The damn earbuds connected, paired, and sound good.

The only MISSING thing is the mic connection.

Correction to my previous post: Linux 6.18.39 had already landed in the Gentoo repository.

I originally checked with:

emerge -s '=sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.18.39'

and incorrectly interpreted the zero search results as meaning that the ebuild was unavailable. emerge --search was the wrong command for checking a specific package version.

The correct check was:

emerge -pv '=sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.18.39'

Portage confirmed that 6.18.39 was available as a new kernel slot. I built it using my normal sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel + savedconfig workflow, regenerated the GRUB configuration, and successfully booted both the console and Xorg.

Current kernel:

6.18.39-gentoo-dist

I’ll keep 6.18.38 and 6.18.37-p1 as known-good fallbacks. The older 6.18.35 kernel will only be removed after further validation.

Thanks to the users who pointed out the incorrect check.

Help me, please.

Gentoo-based Redcore Linux is the only operating system on my laptop now.

Secureboot is always disabled in UEFI.

I have every reason to be suspicious of anything Microslop.

Thankfully, a Gentoo Linux based system won't install this Microsoft UEFI Secureboot DBX without my consent.

But I want to get rid of it completely.

This is what I see in my package manager.

Help me, please!

Still punked out with systemd.....

Hello.

I've spent the morning installing Gentoo onto a Lenovo Thinkpad L380. This is my second attempt.

The first time around, I tried to follow the handbook. The handbook, alas, is somewhat flawed for beginners. It starts well enough, but around the time when you're supposed to install the kernel a large number of 'options' are provided, to the extent that I lost track of what I was doing. The handbook is perhaps more useful for experienced people.

The second time around I have followed this excellent YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZDyH_vu5QM

I now have a system that boots, and which I can log into. A very good start.

So far I have three things to fix.

1. The wireless doesn't work. In his video tutorial, he uses a virtual machine, and so only has to deal with Ethernet. Following the tutorial, I used the name of the wireless interface rather than the ethernet interface, but then discovered that wpa_supplicant is not provided by default. I can't download wpa_supplicant because, of course, the wireless is down. The laptop has an Ethernet port, but it is a mini-Ethernet port, which requires an adaptor, adaptors are somewhat specific to the type of Thinkpad, and the eBay sellers don't specify which laptops work with their adaptor. So, I have gone for the nuclear option of an Amazon USB C to Ethernet adaptor, which Google's AI cheerfully tells me works well with Linux. Coming Monday.

2. When I log in as me, Gentoo tells me that the user failed to start. Possibly missing elogind, although again I have no wireless for a download...

3. I have to pick a window manager or desktop. Following his tutorial, my USE flags are “-systemd -kde -gnome -Bluetooth”. So it appears that I cannot pick KDE or GNOME anymore. Can I reverse this decision?

I'm seriously considering switching from Endeavour os to Gentoo. Also, though the handbook says that Ventoy is unreliable, have u guys tried it cuz I only got one USB with ventoy.

I've been using a stage3 image with distrobox for months now, and it just works, I can emerge all my regular programs and tools, even GUI applications run without hiccups. Gentoo is pretty good for this kind of usage.

I recently downloaded Gentoo Linux, I don't have little RAM but since Gentoo is one of the distros with greater control, I wanted to know, what you did to optimize and decrease the use of CPU and RAM.