I remember all this stuff going on back in the day.

We were running #Gentoo in production at a research facility at the time and it was, umm, interesting, as the quality of the portage tree was very uneven during this time.

Directly related, maybe... maybe not. Shenanigans certainly didn't help I'd expect.

We moved to #Centos in ~2008 IIRC. We were #Redhat before Gentoo so it was a 'comfy old shoes' move.

Gentoo 🔥

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Today we have a fun one we have Luna from the Xenia Linux project on the show, immutable #Gentoo, a project that started as a meme because of the other #Linux mascot

Video: https://youtu.be/vZ0Ejnwhxa0

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Developing-A-Linux-Distro-As-A-Meme--Luna-e2gg8jo

#209 Developing A Linux Distro As A Meme | Luna

Today we have the developer of Xenia Linux on the show an immutable Gentoo based distro, yes gentoo of all things, this started as a complete joke but has si...

^YouTube

Fun stuff: x11-misc/albert used to be licensed #GPL. Then the maintainer decided to arbitrarily make it proprietary with a custom license ("freeware, i.e. proprietary and source available", with a limited right to redistribute binaries for specific Linux distributions). Except that the project has received some pretty large contributions before that, and the authors of these contributions hold the copyright to them. Since the contributions were made under the GPL, they cannot be incorporated into a proprietary project.

On top of everything, the maintainer has *deleted* the issue discussing the license issues, in particular the GPL violation.

https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/blob/f9a33001e9e2930291e8d1a8669a6c43d1de2269/LICENSE.md
https://web.archive.org/web/20210225183856/https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/765
https://bugs.gentoo.org/766129

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Please specify license · Issue #765 · albertlauncher/albert

The Albert website says Albert is "GPL-licensed, 100% free and open source", but, as far as I can see, there is no license file or license headers or any mention of license or GPL in the ...

^GitHub

You are no longer required to compile everything in Gentoo 😎

https://news.itsfoss.com/gentoo-binary-packages/

#linux #gentoo

Big News! Gentoo Linux is Now Providing Binary Packages for Quick Software Installation

Gentoo has the year end gift for users with slow hardware.

^{Abhishek (It's FOSS News)}