Hi everyone,
I've mostly been lurking on this list, but I'd like to let you know
about a new initiative by the Gentoo mips team. We are now supporting
an xfce4-based desktop system for the yeeloong. The images can be found
on any gentoo mirrors, under
gentoo/experimental/mips/desktop-loongson2f, and the installation
instructions can be found at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/mips/yeeloong.xml
Normally a Gentoo installation starts from a stage3 tarball with only
the bare essentials and you build the system as you want. This is ideal
because you get maximum flexibility. But building on the yeeloong is
slow and it takes a few days to get to the images I'm providing. So we
sacrifice some flexibility for convenience.
There are two images provided, one called "vanilla" and the other called
"hardened". The hardened image adds many hardening features to the
toolchain and userland binaries (pie, ssp, _FORTIFY_SOURCES=2, bind now,
relro) as we do in hardened gentoo for amd64 and i686. Both images
support three ABIs, o32, n32 and n64 with n32 being preferred. For
general purpose, we recommend the hardened image because the added
security outweighs any disadvantages.
Its not perfect yet. We have yet to get video working. Also the
current browser is dillo which is not the most popular browser.
If you have a chance, try it out and let us know. You can file bugs or
feature requests at https://bugs.gentoo.org/. Assign the bugs to
[email protected] and CC: [email protected].
Anthony G. Basile
Gentoo Developer
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