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New updates from PineTab-V Gentoo

I was able to compile and run smoothly LibreOffice and NetSurf on PineTab-V!

These are great news! Gentoo's support for RISC-V is super magnificent!

Cheers,
André Machado

#pinetabv #Linux #OpenSource #Gentoo




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Started for the adventure, stayed for the stability. 🐧

#linux #gentoo #debian


I don't remember what put me onto #Linux initially, but I liked the idea of a free and open operating system when I read about it.

I started with Slackware on an old Pentium desktop PC in 2001, then installed Mandrake off a Linux Magazine cover CD, and finally, when I got broadband in 2003, I settled on #Gentoo Linux. The tinkering aspect appealed a lot to me back then.


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.



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.

github.com/albertlauncher/albe…
web.archive.org/web/2021022518…
bugs.gentoo.org/766129

#Gentoo


Great that you covered it! Many thanks. Did you see my post on how a distro (could) use that? It is far more then the convenience a #Gentoo user could have. Actually as I prove in my work for the distro I am working on, it can certainly lower the CO2 footprint because we do not have to redo a lot of compiling. I guess upstream #Gentoo missed that selling point. Cheers and thanks! allthingstech.social/@joostrui…


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#gentoo, wtf?

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