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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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awscli - 1.45.13

Ebuild name:

app-admin/awscli-1.45.13

Description

Universal Command Line Environment for AWS

Added to portage

2026-05-22

boto3 - 1.43.13

Ebuild name:

dev-python/boto3-1.43.13

Description

The AWS SDK for Python

Added to portage

2026-05-22

botocore - 1.43.13

Ebuild name:

dev-python/botocore-1.43.13

Description

Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3

Added to portage

2026-05-22

cachetools - 7.1.4

Ebuild name:

dev-python/cachetools-7.1.4

Description

Extensible memoizing collections and decorators

Added to portage

2026-05-22

cfn-lint - 1.51.1

Ebuild name:

dev-python/cfn-lint-1.51.1

Description

CloudFormation Linter

Added to portage

2026-05-22

cmake - 4.3.3

Ebuild name:

dev-build/cmake-4.3.3

Description

Cross platform Make

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2026-05-22

dulwich - 1.2.4

Ebuild name:

dev-python/dulwich-1.2.4

Description

Pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols

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2026-05-22

idna - 3.16

Ebuild name:

dev-python/idna-3.16

Description

Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

Added to portage

2026-05-22

kirigami-addons - 1.12.1

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/kirigami-addons-1.12.1

Description

Visual end user components for Kirigami-based applications

Added to portage

2026-05-22

multiple-cursors - 1.5.0

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/multiple-cursors-1.5.0

Description

Multiple cursors for Emacs

Added to portage

2026-05-22

onlyoffice-bin - 9.4.0

Ebuild name:

app-office/onlyoffice-bin-9.4.0

Description

A free and open source office and productivity suite (binary versio

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2026-05-22

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