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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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2026-01-19

amarok - 3.3.2

Ebuild name:

media-sound/amarok-3.3.2

Description

Advanced audio player based on KDE Frameworks

Added to portage

2026-01-19

cclive - 0.9.3-r3

Ebuild name:

media-video/cclive-0.9.3-r3

Description

Command line tool for extracting videos from various websites

Added to portage

2026-01-19

colordiff - 1.0.22

Ebuild name:

app-misc/colordiff-1.0.22

Description

Colorizes output of diff

Added to portage

2026-01-19

discord - 0.0.120

Ebuild name:

net-im/discord-0.0.120

Description

All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers

Added to portage

2026-01-19

ebuild-mode - 1.81

Ebuild name:

app-xemacs/ebuild-mode-1.81

Description

Emacs modes for editing ebuilds and other Gentoo specific files

Added to portage

2026-01-19

gcc - 13.4.1_p20260115

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-13.4.1_p20260115

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-01-19

gcc - 14.3.1_p20260116

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-14.3.1_p20260116

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-01-19

gcc - 15.2.1_p20260117

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-15.2.1_p20260117

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

Added to portage

2026-01-19

gcc - 16.0.1_p20260118

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-16.0.1_p20260118

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-01-19

git-sources - 6.19_rc6

Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/git-sources-6.19_rc6

Description

The very latest -git version of the Linux kernel

Added to portage

2026-01-19

gnome-nettool - 42.0-r1

Ebuild name:

net-analyzer/gnome-nettool-42.0-r1

Description

Graphical front-ends to various networking command-line

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2026-01-19

grub - 2.14

Ebuild name:

sys-boot/grub-2.14

Description

GNU GRUB boot loader

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2026-01-19

icdiff - 2.0.9

Ebuild name:

app-misc/icdiff-2.0.9

Description

Colourized diff that supports side-by-side diffing

Added to portage

2026-01-19

irker - 2.24-r1

Ebuild name:

net-irc/irker-2.24-r1

Description

Submission tools for IRC notifications

Added to portage

2026-01-19

megatest - 0.6.0

Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/megatest-0.6.0

Description

A test-unit like framework with a focus on usability, designed with CI in m

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2026-01-19

meson - 1.10.1

Ebuild name:

dev-build/meson-1.10.1

Description

Open source build system

Added to portage

2026-01-19

mu - 1.12.15

Ebuild name:

net-mail/mu-1.12.15

Description

Set of tools to deal with Maildirs, in particular, searching and indexing

Added to portage

2026-01-19

networkmanager-strongswan - 1.6.4

Ebuild name:

net-vpn/networkmanager-strongswan-1.6.4

Description

NetworkManager StrongSwan plugin

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-colordiff - 20260118

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-colordiff-20260118

Description

OpenPGP keys used to sign colordiff releases

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-gentoo-developers - 20260112

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gentoo-developers-20260112

Description

Gentoo Authority Keys (GLEP 79)

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-gmp - 20250628

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gmp-20250628

Description

OpenPGP keys used by Niels M�ller (to sign GMP releases)

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-mpc - 20260118

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-mpc-20260118

Description

OpenPGP keys used by Andreas Enge (to sign MPC releases)

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-networkmanager-strongswan - 20260119

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-networkmanager-strongswan-20260119

Description

OpenPGP keys used for networkmanager-stron

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2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-openvpn - 20260119

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-openvpn-20260119

Description

OpenPGP keys used for OpenVPN releases

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-streamlink - 20260118

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-streamlink-20260118

Description

OpenPGP keys used for streamlink releases

Added to portage

2026-01-19

openpgp-keys-strongswan - 20260119

Ebuild name:

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-strongswan-20260119

Description

OpenPGP keys used for strongswan releases

Added to portage

2026-01-19

osm - 2.0

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/osm-2.0

Description

OpenStreetMap tile-based viewer for GNU Emacs

Added to portage

2026-01-19

portage - 3.0.76

Ebuild name:

sys-apps/portage-3.0.76

Description

The package management and distribution system for Gentoo

Added to portage

2026-01-19

safeeyes - 3.3.1

Ebuild name:

x11-misc/safeeyes-3.3.1

Description

Linux alternative to EyeLeo

Added to portage

2026-01-19

strawberry - 1.2.17

Ebuild name:

media-sound/strawberry-1.2.17

Description

Modern music player and library organizer based on Clementine and Qt

Added to portage

2026-01-19

streamlink - 8.1.2

Ebuild name:

net-misc/streamlink-8.1.2

Description

CLI for extracting streams from websites to a video player of your choice

Added to portage

2026-01-19

strongswan - 6.0.4

Ebuild name:

net-vpn/strongswan-6.0.4

Description

IPsec-based VPN solution, supporting IKEv1/IKEv2 and MOBIKE

Added to portage

2026-01-19

units - 2.25

Ebuild name:

sci-calculators/units-2.25

Description

Unit conversion program

Added to portage

2026-01-19

vivaldi-snapshot - 7.8.3921.9

Ebuild name:

www-client/vivaldi-snapshot-7.8.3921.9

Description

A browser for our friends

Added to portage

2026-01-19

2026-01-18

async-lru - 2.1.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/async-lru-2.1.0

Description

Simple lru_cache for asyncio

Added to portage

2026-01-18

blosc - 1.11.4

Ebuild name:

dev-python/blosc-1.11.4

Description

High performance compressor optimized for binary data

Added to portage

2026-01-18

boost-m4 - 0.4_p20221019-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-build/boost-m4-0.4_p20221019-r1

Description

Another set of autoconf macros for compiling against boost

Added to portage

2026-01-18

connection_pool - 3.0.2-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/connection_pool-3.0.2-r1

Description

Generic connection pooling for Ruby

Added to portage

2026-01-18

dulwich - 1.0.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/dulwich-1.0.0

Description

Pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols

Added to portage

2026-01-18

hg-evolve - 11.1.10

Ebuild name:

dev-vcs/hg-evolve-11.1.10

Description

enables the changeset evolution feature of Mercurial

Added to portage

2026-01-18

imapclient - 3.1.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/imapclient-3.1.0

Description

easy-to-use, pythonic, and complete IMAP client library

Added to portage

2026-01-18

maxitest - 6.2.0

Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/maxitest-6.2.0

Description

Minitest + all the features you always wanted

Added to portage

2026-01-18

mercurial - 7.1.2-r1

Ebuild name:

dev-vcs/mercurial-7.1.2-r1

Description

Scalable distributed SCM

Added to portage

2026-01-18

moto - 5.1.20

Ebuild name:

dev-python/moto-5.1.20

Description

Mock library for boto

Added to portage

2026-01-18

opensmtpd - 7.8.0_p0

Ebuild name:

mail-mta/opensmtpd-7.8.0_p0

Description

Lightweight but featured SMTP daemon from OpenBSD

Added to portage

2026-01-18

sbsigntools - 0.9.5

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/sbsigntools-0.9.5

Description

Utilities for signing and verifying files for UEFI Secure Boot

Added to portage

2026-01-18

scummvm - 2026.1.0

Ebuild name:

games-engines/scummvm-2026.1.0

Description

Reimplementation of the SCUMM game engine used in Lucasarts adventur

Added to portage

2026-01-18

trimesh - 4.11.1

Ebuild name:

dev-python/trimesh-4.11.1

Description

Python library for loading and using triangular meshes

Added to portage

2026-01-18

untrunc - 0_pre20260112

Ebuild name:

media-video/untrunc-0_pre20260112

Description

Restore truncated mp4/mov files

Added to portage

2026-01-18

vdr-fritzbox - 1.5.8

Ebuild name:

media-plugins/vdr-fritzbox-1.5.8

Description

VDR Plugin Inform about incoming phone-calls and use the fritz pho

Added to portage

2026-01-18

xmlschema - 4.3.1

Ebuild name:

dev-python/xmlschema-4.3.1

Description

An XML Schema validator and decoder

Added to portage

2026-01-18

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