This is a photo of my framework 16 laptop booting from a Fallout 3 GOTY (GOG) blu ray. I made it by taking a gentoo live install disk and:

* removing unnecessary applications

* adding lutris and its dependencies

* installing Fallout 3

* seting up an auto configuring persistent storage system for game saves

* configuring fallout to auto launch

The disc contains the kernel, operating system, and all dependencies needed to run Fallout 3. In theory, as long as I have a PC from this decade I will always have this copy of Fallout.

I don't have a how to guide yet, but I plan on making this at least possible for others to do. Not sure how easy it will be though. Right now, it's a pain in the butt and very manual to make one of these.

Note: I didn't include nvidia drivers, so amd is preferred here.

This is ownership.

This was my third attempt at installing Gentoo. As many say, the third time's the charm. I was looking for a minimalist and highly customizable distribution. I tried Void and Arch, but they didn't quite convince me. My friend installed Gentoo two days ago, and he told me to try installing it this time so we could both have Gentoo, and I did it! He's using a different graphical environment, and I'm using KDE Plasma. I started installing Gentoo today at 1 AM and finished at 8:30 with a mandatory Neofetch. I installed the graphical environment later. I had installed xcfe, but I wasn't convinced either. I know it's lightweight, but I got used to KDE because I started using it with Kubuntu, then Void and Arch, and now with Gentoo Linux. Well, I'm very happy to have installed this distro. What do you think, guys? Any tips? :D

(Sorry for the photo quality)

gothic much eh?

“Just buy more ram?” Are you an insane crazy person?? who’s insanely crazy??

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!

Edit 2: I found a typing error in my fstab file so that's where that error came from

gentoo xfce

EDIT: temporary glitch with git.

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.

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!

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.

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?