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Video: Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Video: Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux. As one of my four talks. I gave one on Gentoo titled “Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux.” The basic idea was, what could packagers and developers of other, non-Gentoo distros. As we’ve advanced through EAPIs (Ebuild APIs), starting at 16:39. If you click through. To YouTube, the larger (but not fullscreen) version seems to be the easiest to read. Written by Donnie Berkholz. OSCON mee...
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Gentoo needs focus to stay relevant | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Gentoo needs focus to stay relevant. After nearly 12 years. Working on Gentoo and hearing blathering about how “Gentoo is about choice” and “Gentoo is a metadistribution,” I’ve come to a conclusion to where we need to go if we want to remain viable as a Linux distribution. More recently, I attempted the same on a Mac. Same result a total nightmare if you aren’t building for Mac or iOS. Frankly, I’ve never come across as easy of a dev environment ...
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x.org | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Posts Tagged ‘ x.org. I’m sad to say it’s the end of the road for me with Gentoo. After 13 years volunteering my time (my “anniversary” is tomorrow). My time and motivation to commit to Gentoo. Have steadily declined over the past couple of years and eventually stopped entirely. It was an enormous part of my life for more than a decade, and I’m very grateful to everyone I’ve worked with over the years. If you’d like to keep in touch. This year I’...
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[Gentoo] Setting up a diskless cluster, volume 1 | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Gentoo] Setting up a diskless cluster, volume 1. I’ll be putting together a small, diskless, mixed-node Gentoo cluster this week and hopefully detailing my progress on here. I recently got some interesting ideas from a fellow dev, Christian Zoffoli, on the gentoo-cluster mailing list. He had a setup something like this:. What it should do:. Start PXE — look for DHCP, TFTP servers. Download the kernel and a uclibc initrd. Start a full Gentoo system.
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Striving for greatness | The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader | Page 2
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Video: Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux. As one of my four talks. I gave one on Gentoo titled “Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux.” The basic idea was, what could packagers and developers of other, non-Gentoo distros. As we’ve advanced through EAPIs (Ebuild APIs), starting at 16:39. If you click through. To YouTube, the larger (but not fullscreen) version seems to be the easiest to read. Written by Donnie Berkholz. On how to...
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gsoc | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Posts Tagged ‘ gsoc. 3 days left to apply for the Google Summer of Code. Students, this Friday at 1900 UTC is the deadline to apply for this year’s GSoC. It’s an awesome program that pays you to work on open-source projects for a summer (where you = a university/college student). It’s by no means too late, but start your application today. You can find more information on Gentoo’s projects here. And on the broader GSoC program here. To find the details.
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community | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Posts Tagged ‘ community. 3 days left to apply for the Google Summer of Code. Students, this Friday at 1900 UTC is the deadline to apply for this year’s GSoC. It’s an awesome program that pays you to work on open-source projects for a summer (where you = a university/college student). It’s by no means too late, but start your application today. You can find more information on Gentoo’s projects here. And on the broader GSoC program here. Students, this...
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OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2013/07/17/oscon-meetups-floss-lunch-redmonk-beer
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer. It’s been a few years. But I used to have an OSCON. Tradition of getting a bunch of interesting people together for lunch, from a variety of free-software and open-source communities. This year I’m suggesting we do the same, on Wednesday of OSCON week. Let me know in the comments or via email if you’re interested. 2013/07/19): Beers will begin around 9:30pm Wednesday at Bailey’s Taproom. July 17, 2013 at 4:32 pm.
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Get paid to write open-source software this summer | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2013/05/01/get-paid-to-write-open-source-software-this-summer
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Get paid to write open-source software this summer. If you’re a university student, time is running out! You could get paid to hack on Gentoo or other open-source software this summer, but you’ve gotta act now. The deadline to apply for the Google Summer of Code. If this sounds like your dream come true, you can find some Gentoo project ideas here. And Gentoo’s GSoC homepage here. For non-Gentoo projects, you can scan through the GSoC website. The ones...
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oscon | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Posts Tagged ‘ oscon. OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer. It’s been a few years. But I used to have an OSCON. Tradition of getting a bunch of interesting people together for lunch, from a variety of free-software and open-source communities. This year I’m suggesting we do the same, on Wednesday of OSCON week. Let me know in the comments or via email if you’re interested. Written by Donnie Berkholz. July 17, 2013 at 4:32 pm. If any of you are LWN.