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Gentoo on Codeberg
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Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg, and contributions can be submitted for the Gentoo repository mirror at https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo as an alternative to GitHub. Eventually also other git repositories will become available under the Codeberg Gentoo organization. This is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a dedicated non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this move possible!
These mirrors are for convenience for contribution and we continue to host our own repositories, just like we did while using GitHub mirrors for ease of contribution too.
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Gentoo begins its exodus from GitHub as it settles into Codeberg
How much would you allow an AI to scan and train off your code? People have differing opinions as to how much they're okay with an LLM taking a peek at their projects, and I think it's for the best of all humanity if I keep my own code away from the eyes of an AI.
Regardless, the team over at Gentoo has made a decision: they'd rather not have Copilot on GitHub going through all of their code. As such, they've been slowly migrating over to Codeberg, and they've just announced that they're open for submissions over on its new home.
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Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub
Contributors to Gentoo Linux can now submit pull requests through Codeberg instead of GitHub. The repository mirror is already live (only the ebuild repo), with more of the project's Git infrastructure planned to follow along in the coming months.
The move follows through on plans outlined in Gentoo's 2025 end-of-year review published earlier this year, where the team had made it clear that they would be migrating repository mirrors away from GitHub.
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After Microsoft couldn't keep its AI hands to itself, a notoriously complex Linux distro has started its long march away from GitHub
Gentoo Linux has kicked off its long transition away from Microsoft's GitHub to Codeberg, an open-source git-hosting service run by the Berlin-based non-profit Codeberg e.V (via Phoronix).
Which is quite an intimidating series of nouns, but here's why the average Joe/Jane might find it interesting: Gentoo is specifically migrating away from GitHub because Microsoft just can't keep its AI hands to itself. In its 2025 retrospective, published last month, Gentoo announced an initiative to migrate its mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, "mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."
Like any other AI company, Microsoft is ravenous for training data, and has leveraged its ownership of GitHub (which it acquired in 2018, not without controversy) to feed that hunger, training its LLMs on public repos hosted on the site and nagging users to make use of its GitHub Copilot assistant.