sam
thesamesam@social.treehouse.systems
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@gentoo" class="u-url mention">@<span>gentoo</span></a></span> developer. Spends a lot of time on alternative platforms.</p>
Posts
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Post #2559532
Today, we changed the default recommended filesystem in the #gentoo handbook from ext4 to xfs. XFS is robust and has all the niceties of ext4 (modulo shrinking) but with modern features on top. (It helps that xfsprogs doesn't have weird endianness bugs too..) btrfs is of course another option for the future but our users are conservative in some respects, and baby steps &gt; none. The main benefit of this is reflinks and copy_file_range which automatically takes advantage of that. N...
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Post #2040177
@alwayscurious Could you share a bit more detail on your wpa_supplicant thoughts? There's a lot of reevaluation of iwd right now and I'm interested in what you had in mind. (re https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/12)
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Post #2040176
Why are Xen security issues allowed to retain their security marking in commit messages, like in https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v7.x/ChangeLog-7.0.3 ?
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Post #1997175
Away from kernelposting finally.. I find Rust's LTO implementation curious in a few ways. First, there's the very unfortunate term collisions with both LLVM and GCC [0]. But I find it interesting that they both somewhat advertise, and projects make use of, -C codegen-units [1], because you then don't get consistent results with LTO. As far as I know, in LLVMland, nobody encourages you to mess with partitioning, and it seems like it'd be a better idea for Rust to work on parti...
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Post #1032595
Deprecating Linux support for #gentoo: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html
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Post #423084
Thank you @graaff@ruby.social for your work over the years. https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/26/in-memory-of-hans-de-graaff.html