Category Pentoo

Pentoo: Standard modifications

HexChat: Open links in Cromium: gio mime x-scheme-handler/http chromium-browser-chromium.desktop Use them a lot lately, so here they are in one place: # vim echo ‘” paste-mode from external programm set pastetoggle=<F2> ” displayed tab width set tabstop=4 ” indent tab width set shiftwidth=4 ” color scheme desert for nice 256 colors colorscheme desert if &diff […]

Compat-Drivers: Someone has to do it

How the hell did this happen … Shall I or not … oh well … My new laptop has an Atheros AR8161 ethernet device, which needs an alx kernel module. That’s how it started some months ago. Found out that the alx module is part of compat-wireless, which was only available from the Pentoo overlay. […]

Gentoo : Autoconfigure number of CPU in make.conf

Ever wanted a script that just adapts make.conf to number of cpu cores. Well, here’s my script, surely improvable but maybe useful. It will count the number of cpu nodes. Then make.conf gets backuped and edited accordingly. Example: We have 8 cpu cores, so anything like: MAKEOPTS=”-j2 MAKEOPTS=”-j2 -l1“ MAKEOPTS=”${MAKEOPTS} -j5 -l3.85“ EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=”${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} -j4 –load-average=3.75“ […]

Pentoo: Modifying the LiveCD

Attention: I should retest the commands, until then there might be some typos. But the basic procedure should work and I’ve used the commands successfully. Intro This post should sum up the steps to modify an ISO image of a LiveCD. I’m using the public beta Pentoo 2012.0 Defcon Release as example. The steps for […]