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How to make X listen on port 6000

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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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antimicrox - 3.6.0

Ebuild name:

games-util/antimicrox-3.6.0

Description

Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a

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2026-05-11

btrfs-progs - 7.0

Ebuild name:

sys-fs/btrfs-progs-7.0

Description

Btrfs filesystem utilities

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2026-05-11

btrfsutil - 7.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/btrfsutil-7.0

Description

Library for managing Btrfs filesystems

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2026-05-11

devcontainer - 0.86.1

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app-containers/devcontainer-0.86.1

Description

Reference implementation of the Development Containers specifica

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2026-05-11

eisl - 5.66

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dev-lang/eisl-5.66

Description

Interpreter and compiler compatible with the ISLisp standard

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2026-05-11

gdb - 17.2

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dev-debug/gdb-17.2

Description

GNU debugger

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2026-05-11

joplin-desktop - 3.6.11

Ebuild name:

app-office/joplin-desktop-3.6.11

Description

Secure note taking and to-do app with synchronization capabilities

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2026-05-11

onak - 0.6.4

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/onak-0.6.4

Description

onak is an OpenPGP keyserver

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2026-05-11

ophcrack - 3.8.0-r2

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/ophcrack-3.8.0-r2

Description

A time-memory-trade-off-cracker

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2026-05-11

ophcrack-tables - 1.0-r2

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/ophcrack-tables-1.0-r2

Description

Tables available for ophcrack

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2026-05-11

rclone - 1.74.1

Ebuild name:

net-misc/rclone-1.74.1

Description

A program to sync files to and from various cloud storage providers

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2026-05-11

reuse - 6.2.0

Ebuild name:

dev-util/reuse-6.2.0

Description

Manage license information according to the SPDX standard

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2026-05-11

transient - 0.13.3

Ebuild name:

app-emacs/transient-0.13.3

Description

Transient commands abstraction for GNU Emacs

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2026-05-11

xfsprogs - 7.0.0

Ebuild name:

sys-fs/xfsprogs-7.0.0

Description

XFS filesystem utilities

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2026-05-11

2026-05-10

bpf-linker - 0.10.3

Ebuild name:

dev-util/bpf-linker-0.10.3

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Simple BPF static linker

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2026-05-10

cachelib - 0.14.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/cachelib-0.14.0

Description

Collection of cache libraries in the same API interface. Extracted from

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2026-05-10

dash - 0.5.13.4

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app-shells/dash-0.5.13.4

Description

Debian Almquist Shell

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2026-05-10

docutils - 0.23_rc1

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dev-python/docutils-0.23_rc1

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Python Documentation Utilities (reference reStructuredText impl.)

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2026-05-10

dropbear - 2026.91

Ebuild name:

net-misc/dropbear-2026.91

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Small SSH 2 client/server designed for small memory environments

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2026-05-10

drupal - 10.5.9

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www-apps/drupal-10.5.9

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PHP-based open-source platform and content management system

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drupal - 10.6.8

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www-apps/drupal-10.6.8

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PHP-based open-source platform and content management system

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2026-05-10

drupal - 11.1.9

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www-apps/drupal-11.1.9

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PHP-based open-source platform and content management system

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2026-05-10

drupal - 11.2.11

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www-apps/drupal-11.2.11

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PHP-based open-source platform and content management system

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2026-05-10

drupal - 11.3.9

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www-apps/drupal-11.3.9

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PHP-based open-source platform and content management system

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2026-05-10

fastcore - 1.12.46

Ebuild name:

sci-ml/fastcore-1.12.46

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Python supercharged for the fastai library

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2026-05-10

fastcore - 1.8.18

Ebuild name:

sci-ml/fastcore-1.8.18

Description

Python supercharged for the fastai library

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2026-05-10

fastprogress - 1.0.5

Ebuild name:

sci-ml/fastprogress-1.0.5

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Simple and flexible progress bar for Jupyter Notebook and console

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2026-05-10

fastprogress - 1.1.6

Ebuild name:

sci-ml/fastprogress-1.1.6

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Simple and flexible progress bar for Jupyter Notebook and console

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2026-05-10

feh - 3.12.2

Ebuild name:

media-gfx/feh-3.12.2

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A fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2

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2026-05-10

fex-xtajit - 2605

Ebuild name:

app-emulation/fex-xtajit-2605

Description

A wine emulation dll for running x86 application on an arm64 host

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2026-05-10

gcc - 16.1.1_p20260509

Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-16.1.1_p20260509

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

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2026-05-10

gdbus-codegen - 2.88.1

Ebuild name:

dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.88.1

Description

GDBus code and documentation generator

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2026-05-10

glib - 2.88.1

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/glib-2.88.1

Description

The GLib library of C routines

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2026-05-10

glib-utils - 2.88.1

Ebuild name:

dev-util/glib-utils-2.88.1

Description

Build utilities for GLib using projects

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2026-05-10

grass - 8.5.0

Ebuild name:

sci-geosciences/grass-8.5.0

Description

Free GIS with raster and vector functionality, as well as 3D vizualizat

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2026-05-10

incus - 7.0.0

Ebuild name:

app-containers/incus-7.0.0

Description

Modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager

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2026-05-10

ktextaddons - 2.0.2

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/ktextaddons-2.0.2

Description

Various text handling addons

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2026-05-10

limine - 12.2.0

Ebuild name:

sys-boot/limine-12.2.0

Description

Limine is a modern, advanced, and portable BIOS/UEFI multiprotocol bootloade

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2026-05-10

limnoria - 20260508

Ebuild name:

net-irc/limnoria-20260508

Description

Python based extensible IRC infobot and channel bot

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2026-05-10

maturin - 1.13.2

Ebuild name:

dev-util/maturin-1.13.2

Description

Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings

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2026-05-10

mit-krb5 - 1.22.2-r2

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.22.2-r2

Description

MIT Kerberos V

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2026-05-10

ophcrack - 3.8.0-r2

Ebuild name:

app-crypt/ophcrack-3.8.0-r2

Description

A time-memory-trade-off-cracker

Added to portage

2026-05-10

paramiko - 5.0.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/paramiko-5.0.0

Description

SSH2 protocol library

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2026-05-10

poetry - 2.4.1

Ebuild name:

dev-python/poetry-2.4.1

Description

A frontend for poetry - a python dependency management and packaging tool

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2026-05-10

poppler - 26.05.0

Ebuild name:

app-text/poppler-26.05.0

Description

PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base

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2026-05-10

pygobject - 3.50.2

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pygobject-3.50.2

Description

Python bindings for GObject Introspection

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2026-05-10

pygobject - 3.56.3

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pygobject-3.56.3

Description

Python bindings for GObject Introspection

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2026-05-10

pypdf - 6.11.0

Ebuild name:

dev-python/pypdf-6.11.0

Description

Python library to work with PDF files

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2026-05-10

regex - 2026.5.9

Ebuild name:

dev-python/regex-2026.5.9

Description

Alternative regular expression module to replace re

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2026-05-10

sandbox - 2.49

Ebuild name:

sys-apps/sandbox-2.49

Description

sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack

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2026-05-10

scribus - 1.7.3

Ebuild name:

app-office/scribus-1.7.3

Description

Desktop publishing (DTP) and layout program

Added to portage

2026-05-10

sentencepiece - 0.2.1

Ebuild name:

sci-ml/sentencepiece-0.2.1

Description

Text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation

Added to portage

2026-05-10

systemd - 260.1-r1

Ebuild name:

sys-apps/systemd-260.1-r1

Description

System and service manager for Linux

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2026-05-10

tree - 2.3.2

Ebuild name:

app-text/tree-2.3.2

Description

Lists directories recursively, and produces an indented listing of files

Added to portage

2026-05-10

uriparser - 1.0.2

Ebuild name:

dev-libs/uriparser-1.0.2

Description

Strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing library in C

Added to portage

2026-05-10

volatility3 - 2.28.0

Ebuild name:

app-forensics/volatility3-2.28.0

Description

Framework for analyzing volatile memory

Added to portage

2026-05-10

xcp - 0.24.8

Ebuild name:

sys-fs/xcp-0.24.8

Description

A 'cp' alternative with user-friendly feedback and performance optimisations

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2026-05-10

yara-x - 1.16.0

Ebuild name:

app-forensics/yara-x-1.16.0

Description

A malware identification and classification tool

Added to portage

2026-05-10

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