linux-surface
Linux Kernel for Surface Devices [Moved to: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface] (by qzed)
linux-surface-overlay
Gentoo Overlay with surface kernel and other utilities from linux-surface repo. (by parinzee)
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- | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
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linux-surface-overlay
Posts with mentions or reviews of linux-surface-overlay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Arch and Gentoo - Best Surface Feature Support?
Gentoo - I never did install it on my SP, and I'm pretty sure I won't now. I love Gentoo, and spent many a night compiling away, but when I started to look through things like editing the make.conf, I realized how much I appreciate Arch's approach. If you're interested in trying Gentoo on your Surface, there is at least some support in Gentoo for it, including this howto, this YT video, and this Gentoo overlay, (but again it's 2 years old).
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Failed to emerge sys-kernel/surface-sources-5.14.14
Also, the linux-surface overlay for Gentoo that I made is not officially affiliated with the linux-surface project. Thus its not officially supported by them. I may lurk around on the subreddit every once in a while but, you can report future issues on overlay's GitHub itself for better support.
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Gentoo Linux - Part 2
If you already have Gentoo installed you can go ahead and add the overlay located here: https://github.com/Parinz/linux-surface-overlay.
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I freed my Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 and Apple iMac
I would publish the guide in the overlay wiki itself as the the overlay wiki is meant to be a gateway for surface users to enter Gentoo in general, so you can check it out from there. Writing ebuilds are sure a challenge, I am by no means an expert on it. Help is always welcomed so, you can contribute lol. The tools are from here. Scroll down abit and you'll see some tools like iptsd (ported that already) for example.
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Gentoo Linux
Here: https://github.com/Parinz/linux-surface-overlay
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linux-surface and linux-surface-overlay you can also consider the following projects:
libwacom-surface - Patches to support Microsoft Surface Devices with `libwacom`.
linux-surface - Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
crouton - Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
Linux-Surface-Wizard - Quickly get your Surface device running Debian/Arch/Fedora distros in a working state.
archweb - Arch Linux website code
linux-surface
archlinux-installer-script - Arch Linux install script. Only performs the minimal steps for booting into arch. 75 lines of script with full progress messages and tutorial.
linux-surface vs libwacom-surface
linux-surface-overlay vs linux-surface
linux-surface vs crouton
linux-surface-overlay vs libwacom-surface
linux-surface vs Linux-Surface-Wizard
linux-surface-overlay vs archweb
linux-surface-overlay vs linux-surface
linux-surface-overlay vs archlinux-installer-script