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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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algol68g - 3.11.1

Ebuild name:

dev-lang/algol68g-3.11.1

Description

Algol 68 Genie compiler-interpreter

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2026-04-16

ansible-molecule - 26.3.0

Ebuild name:

app-admin/ansible-molecule-26.3.0

Description

A toolkit designed to aid in the development and testing of Ansib

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2026-04-16

closure-compiler-bin - 20260412

Ebuild name:

dev-lang/closure-compiler-bin-20260412

Description

JavaScript optimizing compiler

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2026-04-16

commons-lang - 3.20.0-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-java/commons-lang-3.20.0-r1

Description

Commons components to manipulate core java classes

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2026-04-16

csharp-language-server - 0.23.0

Ebuild name:

dev-dotnet/csharp-language-server-0.23.0

Description

Roslyn-based LSP language server for C

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2026-04-16

devcontainer - 0.86.0

Ebuild name:

app-containers/devcontainer-0.86.0

Description

Reference implementation of the Development Containers specifica

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2026-04-16

elfutils - 0.195

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/elfutils-0.195

Description

Libraries/utilities to handle ELF objects (drop in replacement for libelf)

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2026-04-16

evolution - 3.60.1

Ebuild name:

mail-client/evolution-3.60.1

Description

Integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality

Added to portage

2026-04-16

evolution-data-server - 3.60.1

Ebuild name:

gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-3.60.1

Description

Evolution groupware backend

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2026-04-16

evolution-ews - 3.60.1

Ebuild name:

gnome-extra/evolution-ews-3.60.1

Description

Evolution module for connecting to Microsoft Exchange Web Services

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2026-04-16

fido2 - 2.2.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/fido2-2.2.0

Description

Python based FIDO 2.0 library

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2026-04-16

folks - 0.15.12

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/folks-0.15.12

Description

Library for aggregating people from multiple sources

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2026-04-16

folks - 0.15.9-r3

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/folks-0.15.9-r3

Description

Library for aggregating people from multiple sources

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2026-04-16

folks - 0.15.9-r4

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/folks-0.15.9-r4

Description

Library for aggregating people from multiple sources

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2026-04-16

ibus-typing-booster - 2.30.6

Ebuild name:

app-i18n/ibus-typing-booster-2.30.6

Description

Completion input method for IBus

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2026-04-16

joplin-desktop - 3.6.8

Ebuild name:

app-office/joplin-desktop-3.6.8

Description

Secure note taking and to-do app with synchronization capabilities

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2026-04-16

keepassxc - 2.7.11-r3

Ebuild name:

app-admin/keepassxc-2.7.11-r3

Description

KeePassXC - KeePass Cross-platform Community Edition

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2026-04-16

libgcrypt - 1.12.2

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.12.2

Description

General purpose crypto library based on the code used in GnuPG

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2026-04-16

libpng - 1.6.58

Ebuild name:

media-libs/libpng-1.6.58

Description

Portable Network Graphics library

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2026-04-16

m17n-db - 1.8.11

Ebuild name:

dev-db/m17n-db-1.8.11

Description

Database for the m17n library

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2026-04-16

mpc - 1.4.1

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/mpc-1.4.1

Description

A library for multiprecision complex arithmetic with exact rounding

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2026-04-16

opam - 2.3.0

Ebuild name:

dev-ml/opam-2.3.0

Description

A source-based package manager for OCaml

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2026-04-16

opam-common - 2.3.0-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-ml/opam-common-2.3.0-r1

Description

Core libraries for opam

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2026-04-16

opam-installer - 2.3.0

Ebuild name:

dev-ml/opam-installer-2.3.0

Description

Core installer for opam packages

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2026-04-16

postfix - 3.12_pre20260415

Ebuild name:

mail-mta/postfix-3.12_pre20260415

Description

A fast and secure drop-in replacement for sendmail

Added to portage

2026-04-16

pypdf - 6.10.2

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pypdf-6.10.2

Description

Python library to work with PDF files

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2026-04-16

pytest-asyncio - 1.4.0_alpha1

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pytest-asyncio-1.4.0_alpha1

Description

Library for testing asyncio code with pytest

Added to portage

2026-04-16

qtpy - 2.4.3-r2

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dev-python/qtpy-2.4.3-r2

Description

Abstraction layer on top of PyQt and PySide with additional custom QWidget

Added to portage

2026-04-16

ruby - 3.3.9999

Ebuild name:

dev-lang/ruby-3.3.9999

Description

An object-oriented scripting language

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2026-04-16

ruby - 3.4.9999

Ebuild name:

dev-lang/ruby-3.4.9999

Description

An object-oriented scripting language

Added to portage

2026-04-16

ruby - 4.0.9999

Ebuild name:

dev-lang/ruby-4.0.9999

Description

An object-oriented scripting language

Added to portage

2026-04-16

samurai - 1.3

Ebuild name:

dev-build/samurai-1.3

Description

ninja-compatible build tool written in C

Added to portage

2026-04-16

sphinx-autodoc-typehints - 3.10.2

Ebuild name:

dev-python/sphinx-autodoc-typehints-3.10.2

Description

Type hints support for the Sphinx autodoc extension

Added to portage

2026-04-16

testscenarios - 0.6

Ebuild name:

dev-python/testscenarios-0.6

Description

A pyunit extension for dependency injection

Added to portage

2026-04-16

uv - 0.11.7

Ebuild name:

dev-python/uv-0.11.7

Description

A Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust

Added to portage

2026-04-16

uv-build - 0.11.7

Ebuild name:

dev-python/uv-build-0.11.7

Description

PEP517 uv build backend

Added to portage

2026-04-16

valgrind - 3.27.0_rc1

Ebuild name:

dev-debug/valgrind-3.27.0_rc1

Description

An open-source memory debugger for GNU/Linux

Added to portage

2026-04-16

wrapt - 2.2.0_rc7

Ebuild name:

dev-python/wrapt-2.2.0_rc7

Description

Module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching

Added to portage

2026-04-16

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