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Da Linux beardude

I think it's about time I ditched Arch Linux for Gentoo. Arch has gotten easier and I've gotten bored with it. Once I've settled to Gentoo, I'd have Void Linux scratch my "Arch Linux" itch

I mean, I've already explored Linux distros with different inits. I don't think anything can stop me when I have Arch, Gentoo, and Artix wiki handy

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www.gentoo.orgWelcome – Gentoo LinuxThe website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
#gentoo#archlinux#linux
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jbz

⚠️ Dropping RISC-V support

｢ Overall, it seems the whole RISC-V industry/market seems to be overly busy with advertising how they perform in AI to release something that is actually worthwhile as a build machine. I have waited patiently, but my patience has run out and I can no longer keep this up ｣

chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03

Chimera Linux · Dropping RISC-V supportThe next set of images will drop RISC-V support. The builder is currently still going but within the next few days it will stop, and the repositories will stay in place but frozen. Nothing will change in packaging (the build profile will remain, template support where present will remain, cross-toolchains will remain) but there will be no more updates to the repo for the foreseeable future.
#riscv#chimeralinux#opensource
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Joachim Weber [friendica] 🦖 🦔 🐲
Die Entwickler der Distribution Chimera Linux haben neue Startmedien veröffentlicht. Die bringen im Wesentlichen die Softwarepakete auf den neuesten Stand, darunter auch die Desktop-Umgebungen.#ChimeraLinux #Distribution
Aktualisiertes Chimera Linux schraubt am Paketmanagement - LinuxCommunity
LinuxCommunity · Aktualisiertes Chimera Linux schraubt am Paketmanagement - LinuxCommunityDie Entwickler der Distribution Chimera Linux haben neue Startmedien veröffentlicht. Die bringen im Wesentlichen die Softwarepakete auf den neuesten Stand, darunter auch die Desktop-Umgebungen. Eine 32-Bit-PowerPC-Edition gehört jetzt zu den unterstützten Architekturen. Sie gesellt sich zu den bereits existierenden 64-Bit-Fassungen für PowerPC-Rechner (ppc64- und ppc64le-Architekturen). Eine Unterstützung für LoongArch64-Systeme ist zudem geplant, die laut Ankündigung „möglicherweise nächstes Mal“ bereitsteht. Mit an Bord sind der Kernel 6.13 und die aktuellen Versionen der Desktop-Umgebungen Gnome und KDE Plasma. Die Chimera-Entwickler weisen jedoch in ihrer Ankündigung darauf hin, dass die KDE-Plasma-Fassung noch als experimentell gilt. Die größte Änderung kommt in Form von aktualisierten APK-Werkzeugen, die sich in Chimera Linux um das Paketmanagement kümmern. Hier müssen vor allem bestehende Nutzer aufpassen: Zum einen nutzt Chimera Linux einige neue APK-Funktionen, wie die Variable Expansion. Zum anderen sind die meisten der zu APK gehörenden Dateien in den Ordner „/usr“ und somit an eine systemweite Stelle gewandert. Obendrauf haben sich auch noch die Repository-Definitionen geändert. Die nutzen jetzt eine aktualisierte Syntax bei den Indexnamen (v3-Style). APK kommt aber auch noch mit den alten Definitionen zurecht. Aufgrund dieser weitreichenden Änderungen raten die Chimera-Linux-Entwickler dazu, ab sofort nur noch die aktualisierten Startmedien zu verwenden. Ältere Images enthalten einen veralteten Paketmanager und Installationsskripte, die mit den Änderungen in Chimera Linux 20250214 nicht kompatibel seien.
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Da Linux beardude

I'm in the mood for some #linux distro exploration today! If y'all got some more suggestions other than the ones below, leave them down below!

I will play around distros that are #systemd less, such as #voidlinux, #devuan, #chimeralinux, #artix, and #venomlinux.

I will also install #archlinux, btw, but try changing the init, see how it all goes.

And I will also try to install #xfce on #alpine and try to make it usable :)

#artixlinux#alpinelinux#chimera
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Wesley Moore

linkedlist.org/ is now hosted on #ChimeraLinux using a mini-CDN/Edge network I built. I have a servers in Australia, France, and USA with GeoDNS selecting which one to send you to.

Is this needlessly complicated for such a low-traffic website? Yes, but I wanted to try to make it faster for more people and here we are. I already had the AU server and the other two cost just over $US1/month, so it shouldn't send me broke… hopefully.

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Justine Smithies
Been sorting out my git repos. I decided to rename my dotfiles which housed my #ChimeraLinux dots to chimeralinux-dotfiles and added a new repo freebsd-dotfiles which will contain my now current dotfiles. These will be updated as time goes on and I find issues or add new stuff.
I'm also thinking about adding a FreeBSD Config repo to store the likes of /etc/rc.conf to either help others or let others help me? Is that a good idea ?

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

https://git.smithies.me.uk/
git.smithies.me.ukJustine Smithies Git repository
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Justine Smithies
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You can replace \w with [_[:alnum:]]


I'm needing some #FreeBSD 14.1 sed assistance as my blarg blog script is now failing under FreeBSD.
When this line runs:

echo "$filename" | sed -r 's|\w+/(.*).md|build/\1.html|'

I get this error:

sed: 1: "s|\w+(.*).md|build/\1.h ...": RE error: trailing backslash (\)

I tried removing the \ before the w and the error goes away but the sed line doesn't do anything then ?
It is supposed to change any .md file paths into build/*.html
For example if it gets posts/my-first-freebsd-server.md it should output build/my-first-freebsd-server.html
This worked on #ChimeraLinux and #VoidLinux

I have noticed this but not sure if it's relevant ????
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253893#c11

Any ideas please and thank you ? ❤️
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Justine Smithies
My #AMD #ThinkPad P14s with 16Gb ram certainly boots faster than it did when I ran #ChimeraLinux with #ZFS and #ZFSBootMenu . Shutting down using the poweroff command I'd say #Linux wins but not by much, though I am using #Geli for encryption on my FreeBSD laptop which maybe slows it a little ? The rest of the speeds for general use it's hard to tell so far and as for resilience I've had no issues as yet and the same could be said for my #HomeLab too.
Why did I choose FreeBSD ? As I was already leaning towards #BSD using Chimera Linux I thought I'd have a read up on various and really liked ZFS so it was obvious that I would choose FreeBSD really. I have read up on #OpenBSD but looking at the docs, reviews and their software repo's I decided it was for me right now. I will be honest some things do seems harder but that's what makes it exciting again as I'm having to relearn stuff and you know how I like a challenge.
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methoxyf

@osnews PSA from an owner of a custom Ampere Altra workstation: gpu/graphics choice is limited and affects OS choice! There is a reason System76 chose a NVidia gpu.

The Ampere Altra has a PCIe bug that causes problems with AMD gpus and the linux amdgpu driver, requiring an out-of-tree linux kernel patch that is sporadically maintained and unlikely to ever be upstreamed. (chimera-linux.org is the only distro that ships with this patch applied) The amdgpu drm driver maintainers have expressed no interest in working around this bug within the driver itself either.

Remember that this driver ends up in FreeBSD and OpenBSD too! Personally a Polaris generation gpu has worked with stock OpenBSD 7.6 kernel because the kernel handles device memory mapping differently than linux and doesn’t seem trigger the PCIe bug. With a newer Navi 2nd gen gpu, the bug interrupts firmware loading in stock OpenBSD. It can be worked around, but:

There is also an issue where Vega and newer gpus require cpu hardware floating point math in the kernel driver code which wasn’t supported on arm64 until drm in Linux 6.2. The most recent releases of FreeBSD and OpenBSD are either on an older drm than that, or haven’t ported the hardware floating point code within the kernel driver on arm64 yet. So even if you get the Navi firmware to load, you don’t get any farther than that (Display Core requires the fpu code).

Nvidia supports arm64 with their closed source driver and is unaffected the PCIe bug (or works around it, depending on what you read, but the code is secret so 🤷) but no BSD for you! They only have Linux arm64 drivers. The older cards supported by nouveau will also get you nowhere on BSD.

Also note that Nvidia DOES NOT ship an arm64 option rom GOP driver for EFI console graphics on any of their cards. Your motherboard/platform could provide an emulator in the UEFI firmware to use the x86-64 GOP driver (my Asrock motherboard doesn’t.) Polaris AMD gpus didn’t include arm64 GOP in the rom, but the 2nd gen Navi DOES. So you can get boot console on it but only working OS graphics on patched linux 🫠

#bsd#openbsd#amdgpu
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