About Unfortunately only Ubuntu is officially supported on ODROID C2. There are some other unofficial images available but not Gentoo. Here we will fill the gap and install Gentoo Linux on ODROID C2. The instruction should be relatively easy to update for other ODROID boxes, like, ODROID C4 etc. Inspired by a short but a … Continue reading Gentoo on ODROID C2
If default Amazon Linux kernel configuration doesn’t have some options enabled in kernel then you can rebuild the kernel with options you need. If you are not sure how then follow steps below 😉 Spawn new Amazon EC2 instance Install required tools to build kernel sudo yum -y group install “Development Tools” sudo yum -y … Continue reading How to rebuild Amazon Linux kernel in Amazon Linux
Apple knows better It is sad that Apple doesn’t provide any backup migration wizard to move backups from locally attached disk to network share. The only option Apple provides is to start backup from the scratch on network share loosing all your backup history. This makes your network Time Machine backup absolutely useless since you … Continue reading Time Machine backup disk migration to network drive
Before you read There is also full automated script available that can be executed on the host OS (works well for macOS and Linux, but could be tricky on Windows): https://github.com/sormy/gentoo-vbox-builder. gentoo-vbox-builder doesn’t require any manual typing in VirtualBox console or any manipulations inside VirtualBox as the script referenced below. However, the script below is … Continue reading Gentoo Linux quick installer script
Kodi is trying to check each file even if it is located on network nfs/smb share and is no more available. Network connect with timeout is very slow, so attempt to clean kodi audio/video library with dead nfs/smb resources thru UI will cause application freeze. To fix this issue you could temporarily rename all smb:// … Continue reading Fix kodi slow clean library
Why? Bundling your application with wine and all application-specific settings into dedicated sandbox could be a very good idea. It will also give you an easy way to double click and run and there will be a nice icon to distinguish wine app from other application Plan You could create application bundle manually from command … Continue reading How to wrap WINE applications into macOS application bundle
About Game Earth 2150 is a nice game from 2000. I had CD versions of Earth 2150: Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet Earth 2150: The Moon Project Earth 2150: Lost Souls I tried to install these versions on wine on my Mac OS X and they have multiple issues. Some of them related … Continue reading Setup Earth 2150 game on macOS thru WINE
Configure Portage Create portage folders for accepted keywords and use flags (if you don’t have them yet): mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.use Setup MySQL Install the mysql-like server (mysql or mariadb or percona-server): echo “dev-db/percona-server” > /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/percona-server emerge percona-server Edit: nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf … [mysqld] innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M innodb_log_file_size = 32M Add … Continue reading Setup nextcloud/owncloud on Gentoo linux
T instances and Gentoo AWS t2/t3/t3a/t4g nano/micro/small instances is not the best choice for compilation of heavy applications, especially on Gentoo where every package is compiled from source code. However, these small T instances are very cost-effective and could be used as playground or for small projects. Before upgrading any heavy package like gcc, glibc, … Continue reading Check CPU/Volume credits on AWS T micro/nano/small instances
Why? Gentoo could became completely unusable if for some reason build chain is broken. If you see “Segmentation fault” from “gcc” then probably replacing whole GCC by the version provided in Stage 3 could be a good fix. You could also use this method to install binary version of other packages, like binutils, libtool, glibc … Continue reading Recover GCC on Gentoo