portage
My Gentoo portage overlay, with mainline fixes and custom ebuilds. (by hhoffstaette)
overlay
sam's Gentoo overlay (by thesamesam)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
portage
Posts with mentions or reviews of portage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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how can i install java 1.7? on gentoo
If you need JDK-19 for some reason (new language features etc.) you can find it in my overlay (amd64/x64 only) at: https://github.com/hhoffstaette/portage/tree/master/dev-java/openjdk/ (or -bin)
overlay
Posts with mentions or reviews of overlay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.
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A small USB WiFi dongle that will actually work under Gentoo?
Honestly, as has been described by others, if you've already got the hardware and there's a DKMS module just use or wrap that; it's not like a kernel module ebuild is terribly complex.
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Hardened profiles improvements
Edit /var/db/repos/local/metadata/layout.conf to match mine (https://github.com/thesamesam/overlay/blob/master/metadata/layout.conf)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing portage and overlay you can also consider the following projects:
abendbrot - Desktop oriented overlay for various ebuilds and the occasional gamer
powerman-overlay - Powerman's Gentoo overlay
gentoo-overlay - FErki's Gentoo overlay
viperML-overlay - Gentoo’s portage overlay with packages for personal use.