Questions about Ututo XS.
I have a questions about Ututo XS.
0. Do I need to compile ALL packages?
1. Do I have only compiler, manuals and basic system?
2. Do I have a manuals? :)
If all answers is yes— I like this system and I will try to install it.
P. S. Ututo isn't dead because there is no repos. Support is not required because Gentoo-based distros aren't made for idiots.
0. Not all ebuilds (rather than "packages") are to manage programs (e.g., there are ebuilds for documentation) and not all programs are written in a language that is compiled. In Gentoo (Ututo is based on Gentoo), there were (are?) a few pre-compiled packages for the some programs that used to take hours to compile (OpenOffice.org, Firefox, etc.). But they could be compiled from source too.
1. I do not know Ututo's default install. With Gentoo, at the end of the handbook (it takes many hours, if not days, to install Gentoo), we were only having a basic system. You can have the same with Trisquel NetInstall (but it takes minutes).
2. I see no reason why Ututo would not have ebuilds for manuals.
PS: if ebuilds are not updated, Ututo *is* dead (only old versions of old-enough programs, with security bugs).
No ebuilds — more hardcore.
Write ebuilds and download source code from Git repositories (or from another websites).
Main question — How to recompile Portage?
Second question — How to deblob latest release of Linux and how to deblob latest Tor Browser Bundle release?
Portage is the set of ebuilds (what do you mean "no ebuilds"?) and a command to install/remove them (with dependency management, and where to download from written in the ebuild so that it happens automatically). The ebuilds are kind of simplified makefiles and the default command on Gentoo is 'emerge', which is written in Bash (a scripting language, not compiled).
There are several scripts to deblob Linux: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org uses one but Debian has another one, Trisquel yet another one, etc.
Does the Tor browser even include blobs?
I mean no new ebuilds.
I want a script for deblobbing original Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
You don't actually have to deblob the upstream kernel. You could instead go to http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ and get a tarball of whatever version of Linux-libre you desire. It is already deblobbed. If you insist on deblobbing yourself you will find the scripts inside the directory of each release.
What is difference between deblobbed Linux and Linux-libre?
That's rather like asking about the difference between a GNU FSDG distro and Trisquel. One is a specific example of the other.