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You might not even have noticed...

... but the git statistics for Exherbo's repositories have been static for over a year. Since I found an easy way to revive them, they're back, live and updated daily: https://nginx.mailstation.de/egitstats/ https://turing.mailstation.de/you-might-not-even-have-noticed/?feed_id=1596&_unique_id=63cd5e6680166

Bedrock Linux now supports Exherbo (Beta channel right now!)

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Bedrock & Exherbo - duo infernale ! ;-) Due to the attempts of an Exherbo user to get it supported in Bedrock Linux , I got curious about it myself. So, what's Bedrock? "Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to utilize features from other, typically mutually exclusive distributions. Essentially, users can mix-and-match components as desired." (Source: https://bedrocklinux.org/ ) To me, that was immediately interesting as I simply cannot spend as much time on Exherbo as I used to (which was a whole damn lot). Bedrock looked like a potential solution to basically run two (or even more!) distributions at once - and, thus, be able to actually run a binary distribution but to use (and maintain!) some Exherbo packages (or a subset of those). Thus, I took a closer look, found it pretty easy to add " fetching " support (which means you can actually run a command that fetches our stage and adds it as a Bedrock "stratum...