Gentoo as Linux system for blender users

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Hello
I am a regular blender user for my own enthusiasm and for production use.
And I like use opensource software as clean of doubtful code software.
That’s why I use the blender, linux…
I found that for handy and modern working with computer graphics user must use:

  • last (git) versions of software
  • third party patchs
  • own modifications of software…
    I know this is not stable as release versions, but it’s works, and works now!
    That’s why I use the Gentoo linux more than three years.
    And i create own overlay (repository) with all modern media software that i use
    https://github.com/brothermechanic/cg
    where you can find and automatically install/update blender (with latest features support), some non-official blender addons and more media and cg software! You are welcome!

May be my topic help you to find handy and useful linux system.
Please get your questions here.
Thank you.

ps: this topic for gentoo’s how to’s only! not for best linux discussions!

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I’m a linux user too, but Gentoo seems like a much bigger hassle than most people are willing to go through. Plus Blender’s buildbot regularly puts out binaries which are good enough for bleeding edge features.

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Thank you very much for this! Very useful! :slight_smile:

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This sounds great. But excuse my ignorance on the matter: How does one use these “.ebuild” files?

Thanks,

JDL

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Hello all
Thank you for interest!
For easy installing and learning about gentoo OS you can install calculate-linux

http://www.calculate-linux.org/main/en/download

@javierdl
Ebuild in gentoo is like deb package in ubuntu, but consist only building algorithm, so you can modify and patch your package on the fly.
(you can allready install deb packages, for ex in my system i have lwks-12.5.0-amd64.deb because there is no source code)