Mastodawn

I'm using this day off to do my host OS updates a bit early. Main focus is looking at the CCache perf on my Gentoo desktop system.

This is now my second update cycle using CCache with Gentoo, and at least right now I'm not too impressed. Hit rates are hovering somewhere around 10%. Packages like LLVM or Clang, which were build both last time and this time, were not sped up at all.

And yet...I'm now sitting here considering how hard it would be to write a librados CCache backend. 🤦

#Gentoo

knoppix 17h ago

Gentoo now offers an experimental Hurd port, letting users boot the distro without Linux. ⚙️ The team claims full Linux discontinuation by year’s end, but the feasibility remains highly uncertain. 🐧

🔗 https://fossforce.com/2026/04/must-be-april-fools-day-gentoo-says-its-moving-to-hurd/

#TechNews #Gentoo #Hurd #GNU #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #UserControl #Transparency #Kernel #OperatingSystem #Privacy #SoftwareFreedom #DigitalSovereignty #Software #Freedom #OS

Must Be April Fools' Day. Gentoo Says It's Moving to Hurd - FOSS Force

Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real.

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Fabian Transchel 19h ago

@serigala_tropis Look, the problem with #gentoo is that the OS expects an unusual (however sensible) amount of RTFM, which even most #Linux "influencers" these days clearly cannot be bothered with. I don't mind in most ways, but it's hard to take anything seriously when it starts with a wrong assertion about e.g. compilation.

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Demokritus Jorik

23h ago

Hey, you like compiling from source? Use Gentoo. You compile everything, and even when there is an update, you re-compile everything. Use Gentoo and happy compiling.

#gentoo #linux #foss #tech

Holger Hoffstätte 1d ago

ntpd-rs-1.7.2 is released and on its way to @gentoo 🙌 🚀

#gentoo #ntp #rust

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H4kii the Posnaniese 1d ago

@amadeus if my puter would be libre - #GuixSystem + #river

If not - #Gentoo and #river as well - doing it right now (three days already)

Marko 1d ago

Veronica Explains bringt ein neues Video, wie man Linux auf einen alten 90'er Jahre #PowerMac installiert. Da musste ich an meine Erfahrungen mit dem PowerMac G5 denken. Da hatte ich nach dem #OSX eine ganze Zeit lang #Gentoo Linux drauf laufen. Das hat mir am Anfang echt viele graue Haare gebracht. 🧓🍏🐧

Aber last not least lief es dann sehr flott auf der alten Kiste, bis mit dann das ständige Kompilieren zuviel wurde und ich die Hardware verkaufte.

🌀 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiyV_Ib77XLpzHPQH_q0qQ

#apple #linux #risc #mac #veronicaexplains

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Demokritus Jorik

1d ago

Very nice post by Gentoo on April 1st, stating they plan to switch to GNU Hurd as primary kernel.

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html

#gentoo #linux #foss #tech

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Packet-lost soul 1d ago

I am back on #gentoo I started to use Gentoo in 2002/2003 stop to use #arch around 2011 give or take, and now fed up for distros trying to tell me how to do things and when to do them I am back to the roots, also they are supporting #GNU #HURD soon more on #usenet chit chat!