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How to make X listen on port 6000

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why adblockers are bad

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Website translation planned

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Compile Time Estimator integrated into genlop

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Exploring portage features

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Speeding up configure runs with confcache

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Adding extra options to the configure call during emerge

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Another alternative for installing Gentoo

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Bootup with the Gentoo 2006.0 logo

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Query gentoo.linuxhowtos.org portagetree from within Konqueror

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Changing the DHCP Timeout

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Portage magic

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Hotplugging? Coldplugging!

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Querying Portage with etcat

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Editing USE flags with ufed and euse

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Using qpkg

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Using the Gentoo Log Parser (genlop)

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Recovering the root password

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Comparing Files

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Specifying only needed locales

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nice and PORTAGE_NICENESS

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Portage's new '--newuse' option

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2026-07-28

krita - 6.0.3

Ebuild name:

media-gfx/krita-6.0.3

Description

Free digital painting application. Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

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2026-07-28

ruff - 0.16.0

Ebuild name:

dev-util/ruff-0.16.0

Description

An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust

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2026-07-28

2026-07-27

atari800 - 7.1.2

Ebuild name:

games-emulation/atari800-7.1.2

Description

Emulator of Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console

Added to portage

2026-07-27

backrefs - 8.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/backrefs-8.0

Description

Wrapper around re or regex that adds additional back references

Added to portage

2026-07-27

cares-tools - 0.4

Ebuild name:

net-dns/cares-tools-0.4

Description

c-ares tools host, nslookup

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2026-07-27

courier - 2.0.6

Ebuild name:

mail-mta/courier-2.0.6

Description

An MTA designed specifically for maildirs

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2026-07-27

fastjsonschema - 2.22.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/fastjsonschema-2.22.0

Description

Fast JSON schema validator for Python

Added to portage

2026-07-27

gamescope - 3.16.25-r1

Ebuild name:

gui-wm/gamescope-3.16.25-r1

Description

Efficient micro-compositor for running games

Added to portage

2026-07-27

gcc - 13.4.1_p20260722

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-13.4.1_p20260722

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-07-27

gcc - 14.4.1_p20260723

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-14.4.1_p20260723

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-07-27

gcc - 15.3.1_p20260724

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-15.3.1_p20260724

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-07-27

gcc - 16.1.1_p20260725

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-16.1.1_p20260725

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-07-27

gcc - 17.0.0_p20260726

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-17.0.0_p20260726

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-07-27

geekbench-ai - 1.7.0

Ebuild name:

app-benchmarks/geekbench-ai-1.7.0

Description

A Cross-Platform AI Benchmark for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS and

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2026-07-27

git-sources - 7.2_rc5

Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/git-sources-7.2_rc5

Description

The very latest -git version of the Linux kernel

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2026-07-27

gitpython - 3.1.57

Ebuild name:

dev-python/gitpython-3.1.57

Description

Library used to interact with Git repositories

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2026-07-27

gnome-flashback - 3.58.0-r1

Ebuild name:

gnome-base/gnome-flashback-3.58.0-r1

Description

GNOME Flashback session

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2026-07-27

herbstluftwm - 0.9.6-r1

Ebuild name:

x11-wm/herbstluftwm-0.9.6-r1

Description

A manual tiling window manager for X

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2026-07-27

jupyterlab-desktop-bin - 4.6.2.1

Ebuild name:

sci-misc/jupyterlab-desktop-bin-4.6.2.1

Description

JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron

Added to portage

2026-07-27

libGLw - 8.0.0-r2

Ebuild name:

x11-libs/libGLw-8.0.0-r2

Description

Mesa GLw library

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2026-07-27

libxmp - 4.7.2

Ebuild name:

media-libs/libxmp-4.7.2

Description

Library that renders module files to PCM data

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2026-07-27

libzia - 4.72-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/libzia-4.72-r1

Description

Platform abstraction code for tucnak package

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2026-07-27

mattermost-desktop-bin - 6.3.0_rc2

Ebuild name:

net-im/mattermost-desktop-bin-6.3.0_rc2

Description

Mattermost Desktop application

Added to portage

2026-07-27

nghttp3 - 1.18.0

Ebuild name:

net-libs/nghttp3-1.18.0

Description

HTTP/3 library written in C

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2026-07-27

ngtcp2 - 1.25.0

Ebuild name:

net-libs/ngtcp2-1.25.0

Description

Implementation of the IETF QUIC Protocol

Added to portage

2026-07-27

phonenumbers - 9.0.35

Ebuild name:

dev-python/phonenumbers-9.0.35

Description

Python port of Google's libphonenumber

Added to portage

2026-07-27

prompt-toolkit - 3.0.53

Ebuild name:

dev-python/prompt-toolkit-3.0.53

Description

Building powerful interactive command lines in Python

Added to portage

2026-07-27

pygments - 2.20.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pygments-2.20.0

Description

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python

Added to portage

2026-07-27

pyproject-fmt - 2.25.4

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pyproject-fmt-2.25.4

Description

Format your pyproject.toml file

Added to portage

2026-07-27

svxlink - 26.05.1

Ebuild name:

media-radio/svxlink-26.05.1

Description

Multi Purpose Voice Services System, including Qtel for EchoLink

Added to portage

2026-07-27

typeguard - 4.6.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/typeguard-4.6.0

Description

Run-time type checker for Python

Added to portage

2026-07-27

urwid - 4.0.8

Ebuild name:

dev-python/urwid-4.0.8

Description

Curses-based user interface library for Python

Added to portage

2026-07-27

xephem - 4.2.0-r1

Ebuild name:

sci-astronomy/xephem-4.2.0-r1

Description

Interactive tool for astronomical ephemeris and sky simulation

Added to portage

2026-07-27

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