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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # GentooX -an -O3, AVX, Graphite, and LTO optimized x86_64 LiveCD Gentoo distribution with installer. Aimed at gamers and benchmarking. +an -O3, Graphite, and LTO optimized x86_64 LiveCD Gentoo distribution with installer. Aimed at gamers and benchmarking. -GentooX comes with simple interactive *install.sh* script, supports BIOS and UEFI x86_64 systems, at minimum requires AVX capable CPUs released since 2011 such as Intel Sandybridge or AMD Bulldozer, among KDE, it includes Steam flatpak and phoronix-suite out-of-the-box. +GentooX comes with simple interactive *install.sh* script, supports BIOS and UEFI x86_64 systems, at minimum requires ~~AVX~~ capable CPUs released since 2011 such as Intel Sandybridge or AMD Bulldozer, among KDE, it includes Steam flatpak and phoronix-suite out-of-the-box. * based on Gentoo's bleeding edge ~amd64 testing branch * OpenRC init system @@ -14,15 +14,22 @@ GentooX comes with simple interactive *install.sh* script, supports BIOS and UEF * Steam installed out-of-the-box with necessary lib32 dependencies and fsync Linux kernel patched in * flatpak is included, easily install VSCode or Discord in sandboxed environment * ZFS support, kernel patched to export FPU functions -* Linux 5.6.7 kernel built with 1000Hz -03 for Sandybridge arch. Patches include aufs, ClearLinux, fsync, unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER, and IOMMU missing ACS capabilities overrides -* KDE 5.18.4, KDE Applications 20.04, KDE Frameworks 5.69.0, Qt 5.14.2 +* Linux 5.6.11 kernel built with 1000Hz -03 for Sandybridge arch. Patches include aufs, ClearLinux, fsync, unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER, and IOMMU missing ACS capabilities overrides +* KDE 5.18.5, KDE Applications 20.04, KDE Frameworks 5.70.0, Qt 5.14.2 ## Changelog -* 2020.05 Release +* 2020.05.11 Release + * drop system-wide AVX CPU compile flag, it is a [net loss](https://old.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/ga1tah/gentoox_202004_new_distro/foxisn2/), 2020.05.01 is the last AVX build + * KDE 5.18.5, KDE Frameworks 5.70.0, Linux 5.6.11 + * make Python 3.7 default + * Fix checking for UEFI_MODE during GRUB setup, thanks [lotharsm](https://github.com/fatalhalt/gentoox/commit/1da62330b78d462b885e16d038b8439bd2144fae) + * all packages updated as of 5/11 + * as always, LiveCD credentials are **gentoox/gentoox** for user and password, automatic partitioning recommended, test and get familiar with install.sh in virtualbox, do not forget to run **emerge --sync** after the install +* 2020.05.01 Release * add support for NVMe drives to install.sh installation script * enable flatpak support in KDE Discover * update all packages to May 1 2020 -* 2020.04 Release -- initial release +* 2020.04.25 Release -- initial release ## Download http://gentoox.cryptohash.nl/ @@ -34,13 +41,14 @@ http://gentoox.cryptohash.nl/ The ISO weighs around 4GB and following settings were used to build it: ## CFLAGS ```sh +source make.conf.lto COMMON_FLAGS="-O3 -march=sandybridge -mtune=sandybridge -mfpmath=both -pipe -funroll-loops -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -flto=12 -fuse-linker-plugin -malign-data=cacheline -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=sandybridge" -CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" +CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ``` ## USE flags ```sh @@ -92,7 +100,7 @@ Gentoo project, https://www.gentoo.org/, note: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. is the ow CloverOS, https://cloveros.ga/, GentooX has been heavily inspired by CloverOS, if you want fvwm based optimized Gentoo distribution, look no further! ## Known issues -* a "hwclock: settimeofday() failed: Invalid argument" message can be seen during bootup: run +* a "hwclock: settimeofday() failed: Invalid argument" message may be seen during bootup: run ```sh rc-update delete hwclock boot ``` diff --git a/gentoox_build.sh b/gentoox_build.sh index 14325b3..b7ff564 100755 --- a/gentoox_build.sh +++ b/gentoox_build.sh @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ gnome-base/gvfs afp archive bluray fuse gphoto2 ios mtp nfs samba zeroconf net-irc/telepathy-idle python_single_target_python2_7' >> /etc/portage/package.use/gentoox # enable flatpak backend in discover, patch qt-creator to use clang9 effectively dropping clang8 -sed -i "s/DBUILD_FlatpakBackend=OFF/DBUILD_FlatpakBackend=ON/" /var/db/repos/gentoo/kde-plasma/discover/discover-5.18.4.1.ebuild -ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/kde-plasma/discover/discover-5.18.4.1.ebuild manifest +sed -i "s/DBUILD_FlatpakBackend=OFF/DBUILD_FlatpakBackend=ON/" /var/db/repos/gentoo/kde-plasma/discover/discover-5.18.5.1.ebuild +ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/kde-plasma/discover/discover-5.18.5.ebuild manifest patch -p1 /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qt-creator/qt-creator-4.10.1.ebuild /usr/src/qt-creator-use-llvm9.patch ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qt-creator/qt-creator-4.10.1.ebuild manifest @@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ cat <<HEREDOC | chroot . rm -f /var/tmp/genkernel/* #rm -rm /var/cache/genkernel/* #rm -f /var/cache/eix/portage.eix + rm -f /var/cache/edb/mtimedb history -c history -w HEREDOC |