How to Upgrade Your Gentoo Linux Kernel - Best Guide on YouTube!

[@alik250]

We need more normies in the linux space!!! Anyway here's a gentoo video

[@danielpicassomunoz2752]

Nay, need more normies stop being normies, thus use linux

[@Gigachad-mc5qz]

​@@danielpicassomunoz2752 using linux is the first step. I was a normie once

[@elijahking3376]

Hey man, glad to see a Gentoo user gaining traction. I think you’re doing great so far. Hope you choose to stick around, because I will.

[@kacperw587]

I see thumbnails made using the Smith's book.

[@MentalOutlaw]

The unaboomer was right, memes=clicks.

[@MentalOutlaw]

As soon as I can leave the city to go to a more rural place, or next time time i visit my family farm, does ranting in a field count?

[@user-vt3vu4xv2l]

@@MentalOutlaw it'd be more authentic than distrotube ranting in his suburban backyard so I'd say take a crack at it.

[@mr.vore_659]

the gentoo version of luke smith

[@asystole_]

Gentoo/Luke Smith, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Gentoo plus Luke Smith.

[@jajajajahahahahaja]

You can set ~amd64 within your make.conf file that's what I do, I like living on the edge. :)

[@mercuriete]

If you have a new hardware obviously you need the first kernel that supports your hardware. But as normal update... it is better to wait until 5.9 LTS Linus announces LTS kernel usually at x.4, x.9, x.14 and x.19 So there are no need to rush until 5.9 comes out. I usually let to the gentoo developers to do a stabilization round to the LTS kernel before upgrade. You can open a ticket on bugzilla if you want a stabilization round. EDIT: I will recomend you to put in the package.accept_keywords

[@patrickdee7365]

Bless you dood. All your Gentoo stuff is Top Notch, this is even better explaned than the original documentation!

[@MyurrDurr]

This thumbnail game is too strong :') and Im here for it!

[@kaysersozze]

FWIW if the package was already emerged before you should use -1 (--oneshot) option to emerge it again, like "emerge -1 gentoo-sources" , if you check messages in your video before gentoo-sources start installing you can see that it's recording gentoo-sources in "world" file, you should avoid that if the package is already installed, something else pulled it if it's not in the world file.

Getting more and more intention to install gentoo again....

[@evart5374]

dont do it

[@sirrobertwalpole1754]

Do it

[@realt0nse]

do it, become a part of us, get lady, be the king of hers, be a chad.

[@johanb.7869]

Cross our fingers, pray to Tux. Nice;)

[@RantOfTheDay01]

For test-purposes i'm always leaving my kernel on super stable versions. Once its running like a charm (on systems where it doesnt have to run 24/7) i'll move closer to the edge ;)

[@reytempo]

nice channel bro... bench watching your videos!

[@nagitokomaeda3237]

s/bench/binge

[@reytempo]

@@nagitokomaeda3237 thanks

[@DailyDoseAnimu]

Just watched your Thumbnail video on KZbin. It's pretty difficult but I'm willing to learn to make mine just as good as yours

[@MentalOutlaw]

Glad I could help! FYI I did this Thumbnail as a 1920x1080 .jpeg, someone commented that .jpeg's take up less space than .png's, so I was able to stay under KZbin's 2MB limit while using a higher resolution.

[@beast4000]

This video is better then the gentoo documentation wtffff

[@emisunflowers]

Fantastic video. Very helpful. This kind of content that thoroughly and simply explains difficult situations (for a new gentoo user like myself) is the kind of stuff needed to increase gentoo usage and general understanding of a Linux system. Great work!

[@nerdsvillellc2941]

Isn’t the mount point for your boot partition /boot/EFI on your system? That’s what your fstab seems to indicate

[@joshuamaserow]

This thumbnail was my linux; I mean life.

[@adithya6956]

about mounting partitions, if it's in fstab already, just using mount /mount/point will mount it

[@BackstreetDrawler]

I'm glad you pointed this out because I was intending to make the same comment. I think that is much simpler.

[@bonkmaykr]

Man I Loved that thumbnail work there

[@m-electronics5977]

16:43 why your kernel compiles so fast?😅

[@aleksandrpetrosyan1140]

To everyone watching, please don't use `vim /etc/file` to edit files as root. Just do `sudo -e /etc/file`. Will save you a lot of headache.

[@Justanoobcoder]

cool

[@Toxonic0Gaming]

What's the rationale for setting your MAKEOPTS "-j" flag to your threads plus one? I've always heard to make it equal to your available threads.

[@zeckma]

I never understood it well, as a lot of sources use the amount of cores, while others use said amount + 1. Personally, I just use the number of cores, stuff works fine.

[@BackstreetDrawler]

That has been the advice from Gentoo community as long as I have used Gentoo which is about 25 years now. To the best of my recollection, the rationale of having one more make job than the number of CPU cores (or, in the era of hyperthreading, CPU threads) is to minimize unused CPU time. If one make job finishes, there is already an extra process waiting to be processed by a CPU core immediately instead of slack time between the ending of one make job and the beginning of a new one. Clearly, any theoretical wasted CPU time is likely on the order of milliseconds. I suppose this could translate to a few minutes difference over the course of a large compilation. Though I do wonder how relevant it is with modern hardware -- especially since so many computers use SSDs instead of mechanical hard drives because a significant cause for delay between the end of one make job and the beginning of a new one is probably I/O from the storage device.

[@dakota48]

Would like a more tldr up to date version of this useful vid.

[@fallofmanbrand]

great video bro

[@gamszguybaz3202]

For those with an initramfs, before configuring grub you should configure your initramfs. You can do it with dracut utility: (as root or with sudo ) dracut ---kver kernel_version for more info you can check gentoo wiki dracut pake or gentoo handbook configuring kernel section

[@caleb-hill]

or you can use { $ genkernel initramfs } before { $ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg }

[@drrenard1277]

I need to do an install. Ubuntu is driving me nuts with how it feels like I am fighting everything when I'm in it. Gentoo other than first installing has been like it's less fighting and also less laggy.

[@AuDHDQ]

What's wrong with your dwm? It looks like you don't have color emoji support.

[@laughingvampire7555]

Windows: I'm making you reboot because I have bugs Gentoo: I'm making you reboot because I want to

[@spandansaha5663]

wait why arent you using doas anymore??

[@MentalOutlaw]

I don't actually dont have doas installed on that VM, it's a new one that I created for testing. I'll probably still use sudo for instructional videos since doas is not a well known command, and most people don't have it installed.

[@DimiEG]

But how about “initramfs” creation?

[@freyjadomville]

packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources indicated 5.4.38 is what Gentoo considers stable. This *is* still useful, however, so thanks.

[@jonesbbq307]

It’s like I’m watching a car repair video.

[@TheKarotin]

Best of the best!!!

[@GooogleGoglee]

I don't want to start any arguing... But why Gentoo instead of Arch? What pros and contro? What is the skill level already acquired to feel confident on start fresh on Gentoo when you are doing good with Arch? Why I should switch?

[@MentalOutlaw]

on Gentoo you can compile software the way you want, customize your kernel, use overlays to build software against libressl or something similar, choose your init system and core utils. Gentoo basically gives you even more choice than Arch

[@BackstreetDrawler]

Honestly, if you're happy with Arch, you may or may not have any reason to switch. I've been using Gentoo (or a variant such as Sabayon or Funtoo) for around 25 years now. I did an Arch install and tinkered with it quite some time ago. But it just wasn't my thing. Besides my high comfort level with Gentoo, I found both more configurable and yet easier to configure. And I've used a wide variety of OSes including other enthusiast distros like Slackware as well as FreeBSD. IMO, Gentoo (and even moreso Funtoo) has the finest-grained framework for control over system configuration of any OS I've used. As much as I like FreeBSD, portage is the one thing I miss most because it blows the ports framework out of the water.

[@JSRMedia]

Manjaro go brrrrrrr

[@MsGaug]

I'm please to see a video on gentoo

[@PanSebix]

A question about make -j Hello, just as JimJamShazam asked, what is the purpose of adding 1 to the max core/thread count that you have? I heard that on Telegram group, and I have decided to test it. github.com/kuchikuu/blog/blob/master/2020/06/13/1/post.md Here are the results. In my case, adding 1 is not beneficial at all. People said it's about "pre caching the file and keeping it in ram, ready to get compiled". One person even said it saved him a solid few minutes by adding that 1 additional core. Your reply would be a huge help to finish my "research". Thank you for reading my comment.

[@MentalOutlaw]

Because the processes that are waiting for I/O are counted as a job in the load statistics even though its not a true compile job. Basically your MAKEOPTS is how many make jobs you can have running in parallel, usually a single CPU thread can handle a make job by itself, assuming you have sufficient RAM aswell (2 GB for each thread in my experience) so if you have 4 threads your system can handle 4 make jobs, and the +1 is to account for that "queue" of jobs.

[@MentalOutlaw]

Its also worth noting that if you have less than 2 GB of RAM per thread that setting your MAKEOPTS equal to the number of CPU threads could result in portage crashing, especially if you're compiling a large package, so for those situations setting it 1 or 2 under is best.

[@PanSebix]

@@MentalOutlaw Thank you very much. It really helps. I'll take into account your warnings, and I will assign less ram in my "test environment" to check the crashing, and potential slowdowns. Great content by the way!!! Have a nice day!

[@vacant2012]

I upgrade my kernel with one simple command: mount /boot && eselect kernel set && cd /usr/src/linux && cp ../linux\-$(uname \-r)/.config . && make oldconfig && make \-j8 && make modules_install install && emerge @module-rebuild && dracut \-\-hostonly '' "$(readlink /usr/src/linux|cut -d\- -f2-)" && grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg && umount /boot EDIT: Pretend like the backslashes aren't there, otherwise youtube treats the dashes like strikethroughs. I didn't even know youtube had that kind of formatting capability.

[@vit.c.195]

genkernell all --menu-config - handle whole 19 min of video.

[@katanasteel]

latest stable kernel: (5.4.38) 5.4.38^bs packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

[@TanigaDanae]

3 Cores .... like Phenom II X3 720

[@kevyyar]

Why Gentoo over Arch? Less resources? I have 16gb of ram bro with a great CPU. So why Gentoo?

[@_MPP_]

Nowadays I need to get work done, so I use Arch. Gentoo is awesome don't get me wrong, but my tinkering/ricing days are over, so I see no reason to use it over Arch. None.

[@deepakshivraj4881]

@@_MPP_ You can do the same job on Gentoo too cuz its all Linux. But I understand you like arch and it works for you but still I would request you to give gentoo a try when you are free atleast. Its an amazing distro

[@_MPP_]

@@deepakshivraj4881 yes, I used Gentoo for over 5 years before switching to Arch. Like I said, nowadays I need to get work done and I'm not interested in ricing or getting 4% more performance out of my distro :)

[@deepakshivraj4881]

@@_MPP_ You dont need to rice your distro if u dont want to. Like Mental outlaw has some very basic config in his distro and if u are using a tiling WM you can just port you config from Arch to Gentoo. Other than the compile time for some old processor I dont see anything wrong with Gentoo. So just do the updates on the weekend

[@_MPP_]

@@deepakshivraj4881 Gentoo was a nice hobby and distro for sure but nowadays I want my OS to be as invisible as possible. Pacman -Syu once a week and that's it :) I make money by developing software, not thinking about nor tweaking my operating system.

[@avocado4877]

1:10 host virtualbox? fake gentoo user 😂

[@ybenax]

I’m not into overpriced devices with limited settings either, but I’m much less into devices with privacy-less mobile OSs that also monopolize 90% of the market-share with anti-competitive practices. So choose your own poison.