Gentoo has quietly begun the long, deliberate task of pulling its contributor-facing mirrors off GitHub and onto Codeberg, a move the distribution frames as a practical workaround for an ethical and operational problem: GitHub’s increasingly aggressive push of Copilot-style AI features into...
Gentoo has opened a presence on Codeberg and is now accepting pull requests there for its primary ebuild mirror — the first concrete step in a planned, gradual migration away from Microsoft-owned GitHub driven largely by objections to GitHub Copilot and related AI-driven workflows.
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Gentoo’s first public step away from Microsoft’s GitHub to Codeberg crystallizes a wider, uncomfortable reality for open source: as AI assistants get easier to use they’re also becoming an operational and ethical liability for projects that prize provenance, license fidelity, and...
Gentoo has quietly started the operational phase of a migration away from GitHub by placing its primary ebuild repository on Codeberg and inviting contributions there — a deliberate, community-driven move shaped as much by technical caution as by a principled resistance to platform-driven AI...
After years away from the Wine ecosystem, a recent community thread revived a familiar ritual: installing Wine (or Proton) on a source-driven Gentoo machine to run a GOG copy of The Outer Worlds — with the usual mix of triumph, hair-pulling, and practical workarounds that have defined...
FreeBSD’s core team has decided to take a cautious, deliberate path on generative AI: investigate and codify limits rather than open the gates to LLM‑authored commits, and in doing so it has joined a short but growing list of major open‑source projects that are treating AI‑generated code as a...
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This is my first taste of Virtual Box. I am installing Gentoo and I wanted to know if I have to have my VTx hardware vitalization enabled for this to run correctly. Any one know?
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