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FOSDEM 2025 (Dec 29, 2024)

FOSDEM logo

It’s FOSDEM time again! Join us at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, in Brussels, Belgium. The upcoming FOSDEM 2025 will be held on February 1st and 2nd 2025. Our developers will be happy to greet all open source enthusiasts at our Gentoo stand (exact location still to be announced), which we will share this year with then Gentoo-based Flatcar Container Linux. Of course there’s also the chance to celebrate 25 years of compiling! Visit this year’s wiki page to see who’s coming and for more practical information.

DTrace 2.0 for Gentoo (Oct 23, 2024)

The DTrace Ponycorn

The real, mythical DTrace comes to Gentoo! Need to dynamically trace your kernel or userspace programs, with rainbows, ponies, and unicorns - and all entirely safely and in production?! Gentoo is now ready for that! Just emerge dev-debug/dtrace and you’re all set. All required kernel options are already enabled in the newest stable Gentoo distribution kernel; if you are compiling manually, the DTrace ebuild will inform you about required configuration changes. Internally, DTrace 2.0 for Linux builds on the BPF engine of the Linux kernel, so don’t be surprised if the awesome cross-compilation features of Gentoo are used to install a gcc that outputs BPF code (which, btw, also comes in very handy for sys-apps/systemd).

Documentation? Sure, there’s lots of it. You can start with our DTrace wiki page, the DTrace for Linux page on GitHub, or the original documentation for Illumos. Enjoy!

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

sec-keys/openpgp-keys-electrum OpenPGP keys for net-misc/electrum releases
net-proxy/mitmproxy-rs mitmproxy's Rust bits
dev-python/aioquic An implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3
dev-python/pylsqpack Python wrapper for the ls-qpack QPACK library
app-backup/duplicati Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

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