Decrypting bcachefs volumes at boot
This blog post describes how to mount an encrypted array of bcachefs disks at boot time.
3 years of work on Pipenv in Gentoo come to a happy end
3 years and 3 months ago, I signed up for maintaining Pipenv in Gentoo. This work made me co-maintainer of pipenv. I finally closed a long standing bug in Gentoo's pipenv. Due to this work, pipenv now ships less vendored packages, and is about 20% smaller in size.
Why I still persist on not using systemd
The following screenshot of a systemd issue reported on github saysit all. I don't care if systemd is technically superior, the way it's being developed is truely bothering. It's leadership is insisting on being blunt ingoring users, misleading and even wrong.
Mate Desktop Environment 1.14 for Gentoo
I am announcing here the release of the ebuilds collection of mate-desktop for gentoo. All ebuilds support building with traditional GTK+2 and the newer GTK+3.