Gentoo Linux Howtos: Tips&Tricks

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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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New Packages

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2026-07-16

awscli - 1.45.49

Ebuild name:

app-admin/awscli-1.45.49

Description

Universal Command Line Environment for AWS

Added to portage

2026-07-16

burp - 3.3.0-r1

Ebuild name:

app-backup/burp-3.3.0-r1

Description

Network backup and restore client and server for Unix and Windows

Added to portage

2026-07-16

dos2unix - 7.5.6

Ebuild name:

app-text/dos2unix-7.5.6

Description

Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format or vice versa

Added to portage

2026-07-16

emlop - 0.9.0

Ebuild name:

app-portage/emlop-0.9.0

Description

A fast, accurate, ergonomic emerge.log parser

Added to portage

2026-07-16

muse - 3.20.2

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/muse-3.20.2

Description

An authoring and publishing environment for Emacs

Added to portage

2026-07-16

mysqltuner - 2.9.0

Ebuild name:

dev-db/mysqltuner-2.9.0

Description

Makes recommendations for increased performance and stability for MySQL

Added to portage

2026-07-16

nuspell - 5.1.8

Ebuild name:

app-text/nuspell-5.1.8

Description

Spell checker library and CLI for complex natural languages

Added to portage

2026-07-16

pg_wait_sampling - 1.1.11

Ebuild name:

dev-db/pg_wait_sampling-1.1.11

Description

Sampling based statistics of wait events

Added to portage

2026-07-16

powa-archivist - 5.2.0

Ebuild name:

dev-db/powa-archivist-5.2.0

Description

PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer Archivist

Added to portage

2026-07-16

projectile - 3.2.1

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/projectile-3.2.1

Description

A project interaction library for Emacs

Added to portage

2026-07-16

stress-ng - 0.21.04

Ebuild name:

app-benchmarks/stress-ng-0.21.04

Description

Stress test for a computer system with various selectable ways

Added to portage

2026-07-16

2026-07-15

awscli - 1.45.48

Ebuild name:

app-admin/awscli-1.45.48

Description

Universal Command Line Environment for AWS

Added to portage

2026-07-15

godot - 4.7.1

Ebuild name:

dev-games/godot-4.7.1

Description

Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine with a feature-rich editor

Added to portage

2026-07-15

gpyutils - 0.16.0

Ebuild name:

app-portage/gpyutils-0.16.0

Description

Utitilies for maintaining Python packages

Added to portage

2026-07-15

mgorny-dev-scripts - 84

Ebuild name:

app-portage/mgorny-dev-scripts-84

Description

Handy scripts for ebuild development and more

Added to portage

2026-07-15

nagios-mode - 0.4

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/nagios-mode-0.4

Description

Major mode for editing Nagios configuration files

Added to portage

2026-07-15

navi2ch - 1.8.4-r2

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/navi2ch-1.8.4-r2

Description

A navigator for the Japanese textboard 2ch

Added to portage

2026-07-15

winbox - 4.3_rc1

Ebuild name:

app-admin/winbox-4.3_rc1

Description

Management Software for MikroTik RouterOS

Added to portage

2026-07-15

yq - 3.4.4

Ebuild name:

app-misc/yq-3.4.4

Description

Command-line YAML processor - jq wrapper for YAML documents

Added to portage

2026-07-15

yq - 4.1.2

Ebuild name:

app-misc/yq-4.1.2

Description

Command-line YAML processor - jq wrapper for YAML documents

Added to portage

2026-07-15

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