NUC7PJYH: Installing Gentoo

Start This project was a real rocky start. I was having a hard time booting off the USB and more trouble with a USB keyboard attached. However, when I could […]

New Toy: Intel NUC 7 Essential Kit NUC7PJYH

I decided to start with an older, but a little higher end than the bottom NUC. At the time Walmart had the better price. On Ebay, a used unit can […]

Gentoo: Gnome-builder 3.38.1 error compiling with Sysprof 3.38.1

As of 24 December I was getting an error with dev-util/gnome-builder-3.38.1 and dev-util/sysprof-3.38.1 with the sysprof flag active. My compile config: Sysprof has a /usr/include/sysprof-3 with duplicate headers that get […]

Gentoo: geany-plugins-1.37-r100 compile error with pretty-printer plugin enabled

The error: Solution, comment out line 55 of PrettyPrinter.h and restart compile using ebuild followed by install and qmerge.

Compile errors with broadcom-sta and kernel 5.9

The net-wireless/broadcom-sta package does compile with the 5.9 versions of the kernel. Specifically, the current driver version 6.30.223.271-r6. The following patch will allow compiling of a working driver. I named […]

Gnome 3.38ish on Gentoo

Gpytage

Updated to use Python 3.7 and Gtk3. I included an ebuild file for local repository use. https://gitlab.com/mikeos2/gpytage  

Gentoo Gnome 3.36

Gnome 3.36 and Workspaces to Dock Overview Issues

17 July update – the r2 version is in portage, but still requires this fix. Simply, the overview functionality of Workspaces to Dock is broke with gnome-shell 3.36.4, it just […]

ASRock J3455-ITX running Gentoo

ASRock J3455-ITX running stable Gentoo Gnome and Kernel 4.19.5.