I have a Void linux VM which only gets turned on once in every month. Today, when I booted up and updated the packages on this VM, I noticed that there are many old kernels installed. As a seasonal Void user, I had no clue on how to remove older kernels. Fortunately, a quick Google search pointed me to a video: VOID Linux: Removing old kernels with vkpurge. Basically, Void comes with a pre-installed utility program called vkpurge....
Just a few a days ago, I wrote a blog post about Pairing Bluetooth Mouse on Command Line on a Fedora laptop. So why do I need to write another post about doing the same thing on Gentoo? Well, as it turned out, I need a bit more than just turning on the bluetooth service and pairing the mouse. My Gentoo’s installation is very minimal, and I think this gives me an excuse to document on how I’d solve or get this working on Gentoo....
I’m still running Fedora 31 on my main desktop though Fedora 32 beta has been out for a while. The only reason that stops me from jumping to F32 now is because ZFS 0.8.3 is not compatible with the kernel 5.6.* on F32. Rumor has it, ZFS 0.8.4 will support kernel 5.6. Tonight, while doing the system update with sudo dnf update -y on F31 desktop, I noticed that the kernel for F31 is now kernel-5....
My Gentoo based Linux laptop which is still running the older kernel 5.3.15. A short while back, I had a failed attempt to upgrade the kernel to 5.4.2 as the disk which encrypted with dm-crypt couldn’t be decrypted on boot. Since the older kernel 5.3.15 was working fine and free time was I what I lacked of, it seemed logical to just not doing anything about it. Today while updating all the packages on my Gentoo laptop, I notice there was a newer kernel available: 5....
Today I decided to upgrade the kernel (gentoo-sources) from 4.19.64 to 5.2.6 on my old ThinkPad X220. Apart from a few hiccups, everything went quite smoothly. I already have a blog post about upgrading the kernel on Gentoo, so I’ll skip many things here. First, ensure the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.2.6 is installed: # emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.26 After the above package installed, we should be able to list it: ~ ❯❯❯ eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets: [1] linux-4....
Today I’m going to document how I built and installed kernel 4.20.1 a Gentoo laptop, Dell XPS 15 9570. This blog post is not intended to be a tutorial or even a guide. I’m very new to Gentoo, and have been spoiled by Ubuntu and Fedora for not needing to compile my own kernel. :) Anyhow, it’s very likely that I’ll need to compile the kernel again on Gentoo, and therefore I think having some sorts of documents is better than nothing at all....
The other day, my SuSE 10.1 notifies that there were updates available including bug fixes and new kernel. I thought it might be convenient if I just click on select all, and update button. So, I did that and went out to school. When I came back home, the update was nicely done. There was no indication to ask me to restart the computer (as most other OSes do), but I thought it’d be good restart it anyway....