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We recommend using the <em>MATE</em> desktop.
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- <h2>Gentoo</h2>
- <p>
- Gentoo is a bleeding edge <em>source based</em> distribution.
- It provides only source code in its repositories, and the <em>portage</em>
- package manager automatically compiles the source code for you
- along with all dependencies, when installing packages. This makes
- the distribution extremely configurable. It's common in Gentoo
- to see 10, 20 or even 30 versions of the same package, with different
- patches, and you can mix and match.
- </p>
- <p>
- Gentoo has a page about libreboot (WARNING: not guaranteed to be
- up to date with changes from libreboot or Gentoo itself):<br/>
- <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot</a>
- </p>
- <p>
- Gentoo provides non-free software by default, but you can configure
- the package manager when installing it, so that it doesn't let
- you install non-free software. This way, you will end up with a
- completely free system.
- </p>
- <p>
- Modify your <em>/etc/portage/make.conf</em> with the relevant license groups. See:
- <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_Groups#Metasets">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_Groups#Metasets</a>
- - and <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#ACCEPT_LICENSE">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#ACCEPT_LICENSE</a>
- - configure the <em>ACCEPT_LICENSE</em> string accordingly. if you plan using <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay">overlays</a> it is also
- recommended that apart from the FREE metaset, you also add GPL to the variable ACCEPT_LICENSE as in some overlays there are packages that define that
- they are using the GPL license but not what version of the GPL They are using.
- </p>
- <p>
- You also need to deblob your kernel: For that you need to add the
-deblob useflag in the USE variable at /etc/portage/make.conf see
-<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot#Let_portage_remove_the_blobs">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot#Let_portage_remove_the_blobs</a>
-, so that when you install the source code of the kernel it is
-emerged without the blobs, however this will only work if your
-objective is to install the hardened-sources, ck-sources, or the
-rt-sources kernel, so if you plan to install any other kernel such as
-gentoo-sources (the recommended kernel by the Gentoo Project) or any
-other kernel listed at <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Overview">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Overview</a>
-you have two options:</p>
-<ol>
- <li>
-<p>Creating a local overlay (repository) with a modified copy
- of your desired kernel’s ebuild so that the deblob useflag does
- work in it (This may not work if you use the kernel git-sources, as
- of git-sources unstable, inconsistent, bleeding-edge nature it may
- work at some point and in other not, also pf-sources won’t work
- with this method as its versioning classification does conflict with
- Gentoo’s internal script for controlling the deblobbing proccess,
- however if you want to mess with the script it is located inside the
- file at /usr/portage/eclass/kernel-2.eclass). For this first create
- a local overlay following the steps defined at
- <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay</a>
- , next create the directory of your kernel at
- /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/your-kernel-dir, after that copy the
- ebuild of your desired kernel from
- /usr/portage/sys-kernel/your-kernel-dir/your-kernel.ebuild to
- usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/your-kernel-dir/your-kernel.ebuild,
- then open it in an editor and add a line with K_DEBLOB_AVAILABLE=”1”
- between the variable EAPI and the line inherit kernel-2, and finally
- run with root permissions the command <b>ebuild
- /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/your-kernel-dir/your-kernel.ebuild
- manifest</b> <span style="font-weight: normal">; after that if you
- had already added </span><b>deblob</b> <span style="font-weight: normal">to
- your useflags you can continue with the kernel installation as you
- normally would.</span></p>
- </li><li>
-<p>Adding an exception to the licences that are accepted for
- your desired kernel so that portage allows installing the source
- code of your desired kernel even if it has blobs, and after that
- applying the linux-libre deblob scripts by yourself and by doing so
- removing the blobs. For this first create a file in
- /etc/portage/package.license with the following content
- <b>sys-kernel/your-kernel-sources freedist</b> <span style="font-weight: normal">,
- next emerge (install) the source code of your kernel with portage,
- after that go to /usr/src/linux and download the proper </span><b>deblob-check</b> <span style="font-weight: normal">
- and </span><b>deblob-version</b> <span style="font-weight: normal"> scripts for your kernel version from
- <a href="http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/releases/tags/">http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/releases/tags/</a>,
- then make them executable, and finally set the </span><b>EPYTHON</b>
- <span style="font-weight: normal">variable to python2.7 and execute
- with root permissions the script </span><b>deblob-version</b> <span style="font-weight: normal">; after that continue
- with the kernel installation as you normally would. </span>
- </p>
-</li></ol>
-<p><span style="font-weight: normal">It is also possible to install
-the linux-libre sources following the ins</span><span style="font-weight: normal">tructions
-at
-<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot#Use_linux-libre_sources">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_on_libreboot#Use_linux-libre_sources</a></span>
-however this is not recommended as portage would not be able to
-manage it.</p>
- <p>
- <a href="https://gentoo.org/">Visit the Gentoo website</a>
- </p>
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