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I honestly don't think there is a good reason. Probably the main difference is that debian might be a bit more difficult to tweak to use the latest packages, whereas Gentoo stays pretty up to date, even when you don't have it keyworded (read: stable). For example, I'm expecting Gnome 2.8 to be in portage within a couple days. Infact, packages are getting merged in slowly. The downside to that, of course, is that an early adopter (again, a keyworded, "unstable" portage) might have an unstable system. I've always used keywords and have noticed very little, if any, instability. With gentoo, you just learn more. That's the reason i use it. I like things to play with to expand my knowledge on a subject. Gentoo does that. Gentoo also has a very intelligent system for handling rc scripts, that seems to just work. rc-update is just awesome. The downside to Gentoo (and it's a highly over exagerated downside), is it's compile time. To put things into perspective, I emerge sync (update the portage tree) daily. For the past week i've had maybe one or two small programs that needed to be updated, and the total compilation time was less than 10 minutes each time. Even with the compile time, the system is perfectly usable while the compile is taking place. Now, if you wait a month between each emerge sync && emerge -u world, you're going to be compiling for a LONNGG time. Your key to using Gentoo successfully is keeping it up to date.

What it comes down to isn't whether or not Gentoo or Debian is intrinsically better than the other, rather which of the two suits you better. I've used debian, and I didn't like it. I come from a mainly BSD background, so i appreciated portage, i appreciated a more simplistic rc script setup, and i appreciated the merits of a source-based distro. Gentoo just fits me. I suggest you try both, and come to a conclusion on your own. Otherwise, you'll be tainted by dogmatic views from both sides, trolls, and flames.

I tried out Mandrake and I found it to be rather slow even on a 2.4 GHz P4. Having gone to Mandrake straight from FreeBSD, I thought maybe it was just that Linux in general was slower, but then I found Gentoo which had none of the speed problems of Mandrake. I've heard from others that Mandrake is just slow in general so I don't think it was just me.

Ok, how about this goto Debian Hardened and read the status (hint, hint 3 - Alpha). Now goto Gentoo and read the status and then notice that, indeed there is a difference between alpha and stable code and therefor one would gain a higher understanding of code maturity.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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After D. Robbins left Gentoo he has spent much of his time consulting with Sun. It appears one of his key strategic recommendations was to open source the OS and then infuse Sun's installation/package management system w/ portage. We all know portage is based off of BSD ports (at least in concept). So clearly, Sun is hoping to send Solaris down the path that Gentoo and BSD have already been down. The path to oblivion. By devaluing their intellectual property they can write it off and use that as means to boost their profitability (like they did w/ the Microsoft settlement).

Slashdot... news reporting and commentary on par w/ CBS.

I've had the opposite experience - not a single problem in 2+ years of fairly heavy use that forums.gentoo.org hadn't already addressed.

Don't I know it.

I am typing this at work on a Pentium III Windows NT 4 system with 256Mb ram. Contractors get all the crap hardware (and software for the matter).

Try java development with that, my head hurts (I've got plenty of time to think about it while the hard drive continually swaps).

Still I have introduced other developers here to linux tools for linux developers forced to use windows.

Would prefer to be using my favorite dist but you can't get everything you want can you?

Check this link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

Check out Mandrake 9.1 vs Gentoo 1.4. IMO there's a big speed avantage over some of distros simply because it's quite easy to tune and tweak a Gentoo install not to load drivers or programs it doesn't need. Comparing Suse 9.1 Pro to Gentoo (I backed up my Gentoo box, wiped the drive, installed, tested and by the end of the day had Gentoo back on), Gentoo won the speed contest hands down.

The only thing they got going for them is the multiple architecture support.

I think Portage is pretty cool. It's the only distro that I've use that could install mplayer correctly the first time (emerge mplayer). Gentoo is hardly perfect but it is a very stable distro with unique features. I've been using it for over a year now and have yet to find anything better for my purposes and in my opinion.

No GNU/Linux distro is the best for everyone. Having choices is a good thing. Gentoo isn't for everyone but is pretty damn good.

Maybe what you need is a metadistribution (see first paragraph), then. That way, your firewall, desktop, and cluster can all be managed the same way and and you don't have to go through special effort to change a piece of software to work with all of them.

We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution.

I think (please correct me if I am wrong)
a) most ISP nowaday is moving toward virtual domain for email given there are a lot of great open-source projects to make setting up virtual domain email a piece of cake (e.g. virtual domain guide from Gentoo And it is easier to maintain.
b) centralization of trusted resources in this context is local to the ISP and their customers. and I am pretty sure they will have database replication one way or the other to keep things running smooth.
c) this actually helps to reduce waste bandwidth for dealing with spam at the very early stage of spam life cycle since it is being dealt with before it gets send.
d) this makes spammer trace-able in a way which may help law enforcement in future.

Although gentoo specific you still get the gist to get this to work on other distros.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217412/

from my personal experience (and my personal tastes), i'm of the opinion that Mandrake is a good starting distro (i think it's a good choice). installation is easy and everything is generally set up pretty well automatically.

but if you want to learn more about the way linux works, i think Gentoo is a better option, since you basically have to set up and configure all the system services and software yourself, mostly manually. (but i love not having to touch the rc scripts.)

the reason i suggest Gentoo is because of the simple fact that the Gentoo Handbook goes into all the detail you need, holding your hand each step of the way in setting it up, and bringing it to a workable level.

what brought me to Gentoo was that i heard about the fact that you can custom-compile all the software you use. that's even what everyone assosciates with Gentoo. but what people seem to forget (or humorously omit - or maybe just not even know) is that so much of Gentoo's setup is automated. you type "emerge" and the name of your program, and it configures and compiles the program for you. you don't even have to think about it.

and with such wide choices in software, including ebuilds for some commercial games, it's really not that difficult to get started using.

and with the "compile it yourself" mantra that pervades the community, people forget that there are quite often precompiled binaries available for most software and a generic kernel configurator that makes it quick and easy to get started.

if you're interested with playing with linux now, but don't want to format any hard drives, don't forget there are several live CD distros, suck as Knoppix that will let you "test the waters," so-to-speak.

give it a whirl. you won't be sorry.

from my personal experience (and my personal tastes), i'm of the opinion that Mandrake is a good starting distro (i think it's a good choice). installation is easy and everything is generally set up pretty well automatically.

but if you want to learn more about the way linux works, i think Gentoo is a better option, since you basically have to set up and configure all the system services and software yourself, mostly manually. (but i love not having to touch the rc scripts.)

the reason i suggest Gentoo is because of the simple fact that the Gentoo Handbook goes into all the detail you need, holding your hand each step of the way in setting it up, and bringing it to a workable level.

what brought me to Gentoo was that i heard about the fact that you can custom-compile all the software you use. that's even what everyone assosciates with Gentoo. but what people seem to forget (or humorously omit - or maybe just not even know) is that so much of Gentoo's setup is automated. you type "emerge" and the name of your program, and it configures and compiles the program for you. you don't even have to think about it.

and with such wide choices in software, including ebuilds for some commercial games, it's really not that difficult to get started using.

and with the "compile it yourself" mantra that pervades the community, people forget that there are quite often precompiled binaries available for most software and a generic kernel configurator that makes it quick and easy to get started.

if you're interested with playing with linux now, but don't want to format any hard drives, don't forget there are several live CD distros, suck as Knoppix that will let you "test the waters," so-to-speak.

give it a whirl. you won't be sorry.

from my personal experience (and my personal tastes), i'm of the opinion that Mandrake is a good starting distro (i think it's a good choice). installation is easy and everything is generally set up pretty well automatically.

but if you want to learn more about the way linux works, i think Gentoo is a better option, since you basically have to set up and configure all the system services and software yourself, mostly manually. (but i love not having to touch the rc scripts.)

the reason i suggest Gentoo is because of the simple fact that the Gentoo Handbook goes into all the detail you need, holding your hand each step of the way in setting it up, and bringing it to a workable level.

what brought me to Gentoo was that i heard about the fact that you can custom-compile all the software you use. that's even what everyone assosciates with Gentoo. but what people seem to forget (or humorously omit - or maybe just not even know) is that so much of Gentoo's setup is automated. you type "emerge" and the name of your program, and it configures and compiles the program for you. you don't even have to think about it.

and with such wide choices in software, including ebuilds for some commercial games, it's really not that difficult to get started using.

and with the "compile it yourself" mantra that pervades the community, people forget that there are quite often precompiled binaries available for most software and a generic kernel configurator that makes it quick and easy to get started.

if you're interested with playing with linux now, but don't want to format any hard drives, don't forget there are several live CD distros, suck as Knoppix that will let you "test the waters," so-to-speak.

give it a whirl. you won't be sorry.

from my personal experience (and my personal tastes), i'm of the opinion that Mandrake is a good starting distro (i think it's a good choice). installation is easy and everything is generally set up pretty well automatically.

but if you want to learn more about the way linux works, i think Gentoo is a better option, since you basically have to set up and configure all the system services and software yourself, mostly manually. (but i love not having to touch the rc scripts.)

the reason i suggest Gentoo is because of the simple fact that the Gentoo Handbook goes into all the detail you need, holding your hand each step of the way in setting it up, and bringing it to a workable level.

what brought me to Gentoo was that i heard about the fact that you can custom-compile all the software you use. that's even what everyone assosciates with Gentoo. but what people seem to forget (or humorously omit - or maybe just not even know) is that so much of Gentoo's setup is automated. you type "emerge" and the name of your program, and it configures and compiles the program for you. you don't even have to think about it.

and with such wide choices in software, including ebuilds for some commercial games, it's really not that difficult to get started using.

and with the "compile it yourself" mantra that pervades the community, people forget that there are quite often precompiled binaries available for most software and a generic kernel configurator that makes it quick and easy to get started.

if you're interested with playing with linux now, but don't want to format any hard drives, don't forget there are several live CD distros, suck as Knoppix that will let you "test the waters," so-to-speak.

give it a whirl. you won't be sorry.

Gentoo

I would say install linux at home (try something like Gentoo Linux), and spend a lot of time working with it.

There is a set of tutorials going from Basic to Advanced Linux Administration linked here, and a direct link to the tutorials here.

Good luck and enjoy Linux - it can be a lot of fun!

I would say install linux at home (try something like Gentoo Linux), and spend a lot of time working with it.

There is a set of tutorials going from Basic to Advanced Linux Administration linked here, and a direct link to the tutorials here.

Good luck and enjoy Linux - it can be a lot of fun!

A Knoppix CD

This is the original live CD. Pop it into any reasonably modern PC and reboot to experience Linux without installation hassles. It's horribly slow but does give you a decent start.

The Linux Professional Institute lpi-101 Objectives.

This is what you have to learn to just start out on Linux admin. Skip the hardware stuff and start out at Objective 103. Go back to the hardware lessons after you are more confident.

The RUTE book

This is by far the best book for the root user. It's in serious need of a second edition, but it's 600 pages of good solid stuff

Gentoo

Once you have got a bit of experience with Linux this is the distribution to go for.
The install manual is a lesson all of its own!

Don't waste your employers money on courses which are simply not necessary provided you can read and understand English, and have sufficient self disipline to do the reading. The money would be much better spent getting a small laptop, and giving it to you once you have an LPI certificate or two.

A Knoppix CD

This is the original live CD. Pop it into any reasonably modern PC and reboot to experience Linux without installation hassles. It's horribly slow but does give you a decent start.

The Linux Professional Institute lpi-101 Objectives.

This is what you have to learn to just start out on Linux admin. Skip the hardware stuff and start out at Objective 103. Go back to the hardware lessons after you are more confident.

The RUTE book

This is by far the best book for the root user. It's in serious need of a second edition, but it's 600 pages of good solid stuff

Gentoo

Once you have got a bit of experience with Linux this is the distribution to go for.
The install manual is a lesson all of its own!

Don't waste your employers money on courses which are simply not necessary provided you can read and understand English, and have sufficient self disipline to do the reading. The money would be much better spent getting a small laptop, and giving it to you once you have an LPI certificate or two.

I agree that installation and hands on is the best thing...You will blow up an install 20+ times before you get it down pat, but after that you can do it in your sleep.. The thing is that your a admin allready, meaning you know what you want to do just not how to do it. http://www.gentoo.org/ they have THE BEST INSTALL MANUAL and the BEST FORUMS I have ever seen for any OS. and right off the bat you are installing linux from scratch so you can get a real hands experience. After that you can tailor that experience to your linux installation of choice.

Personally I'd recommend the RedHat training.

This will be more of benefit to you if you actually are going to use RedHat, but of course the general principles will apply.

If I were you, I'd also get Linux on a home machine and start "fiddling" to get up to speed.

Maybe install Vmware or a similar product so you can try different things.

Personally I took a leap and went from Windows to Gentoo linux and never looked back!

Good luck with it.

You could dual-boot an existing Windows machine or run VMWARE so you c

It's not too much difficult to get a 20 seconds boottime (from grub to GDM) in any machine using linux.

And you don't even need to rebuild custom kernels or hardcode anything, just launch GDM as soon as posible, then you load the other services in parallel just like windows do. Some other tricks explained in also help ;-).

8 out of the 20 seconds are used for the linux kenrel to load, and the rest are mainly Xfree loading and GDM & GTK loading....

Now imagine if you use a lightweight Xserver like kdrive and port kdrive to a fast-booting kernel such as FreeBSD: I bet you could get under 10 seconds boottimes. And there are still much more tricks:

• suspend on disk
• compressed second initrd for file needed for booting
• a more lightweight Display Manager like the one of Enlightenment guys
• Hardware Accelerated graphical server?
• DirectFB ?
• LinuxBIOS
• EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specification [2]

I'm thinking about building a new distro with some of these ideas and more, if you're interested, edulix@jabber.org ;-).

Cheers,
Edulix.

--- [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=131142&po stdays=0&postorder=asc
[2] http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/

I found a patch that makes it really easy to install. Download it here.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Or go straight to the CVS!

If you want to find out when it is available in portage without sync then check the portage database

Some of those appear to be Engage which will be a part of Enlightenment DR17. You can get it from their CVS server, check this out for more info.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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Have you tried Portage in Gentoo?
http://www.gentoo.org/

thats the closest i have found to CVS like update.

i love the emerge tool

config files are merged, might have to do some manual diff editing, and sources are updated and then u start recompiling.. :)

$>emerge rsync
$>emerge -U world ;)

Enter "deltup" a tool that looks at to tarrballs and gives you a diff between the 2 that you can use to "transform the old tarball to a exact copy of the new tarball", it even preserves MD5 checksums compatibility. Now some enterprising gentoo user create a "dynamic deltup server" that automates the creation of these delta files, and people can reuse the delta files that other people used.

Using this technique in combination with gentoo portage people can reduce there traffic with on average 75%.

Have a look at the following URL's for more information:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=215262

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/deltup-status.atim e.html

Rigolo

It works beautifully but I can't help but think it is a waste of bandwidth.

Gentoo users should make sure they know about this its called deltup, basically a script for portage that grabs xdelta patches instead of downloading the entire file again. It seems to save me alot of bw anyway.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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Seriously, I've been on the ATI beta testing team (although not anymore) and submitted feedback for every driver release to date.

I cannot get 3D working (2D works fine) with my 9800 pro - although exactly the same setup works fine on my old 8500 for 3D.

ATI have not responded to my emails, to my feedback, to any forum posts (although that isn't unexpected) - and this just plain sucks.

Please, if you want a 3D card in Linux, check people have the same hardware and it works if you're after an ATI card. Although only a small group of people have this issue, it is real and does exist.

Gentoo discussion
Rage 3D discussion

Quick Summary Enabling DRI causes X eat all my CPU and not start unless I have a working framebuffer.
With a working framebuffer I get screen corruption, menus and windows are not drawn properly and running any OpenGL application causes X to hang and eat all my CPU.

In both cases I can ssh into my box and kill X or the OpenGL app and I can use the box again.

The only common demoninator seems to be Asus motherboards with certain ATI cards - but the same hardware works fine for Windows XP!

He's already using Gentoo. It would be very difficult to install Gentoo and not learn a lot about the system in the process. The install handbook should be mandatory reading even if they won't be doing the installation.

For any kind of Linux-related media recording whatsoever, you should definitely check out dyne:bolic, i.e. a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console--and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

It is unquestionably invaluable to explore if you are not sure which software do you need to install and use on your own GNU/Linux system (e.g. Debian or Gentoo). I hope this helps.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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There are far more effective solutions available here and here. In fact, you could get ahead of the curve for when people start trying to write spyware for Linux. Do a front-end to LIDS. Install it with a restrictuve ruleset, and then the front-end monitors the warning logs. If it detects something then it pops up a box saying "blah just tried to write to directory foo, do you wish to authorise this?". If the user clicks yes then add a new rule and restart LIDS. Obviously this isn't perfect as you would then have to re-run the command. It would be better to write hooks into LIDs itself for this purpose.

Phillip.

[I'm not a Gentoo user, but might try it out later this year - hopefully on a dual Opteron workstation.]

So how are Gentoo users faring with the 2004.2 release?

And is the organization healthy despite Daniel Robbins stepping down from the top spot?

Not in the current x86 Quick Installation, it doesn't. Scroll down a page or so for the /etc/fstab template, which suggests ext2 for the /boot partition, and reiserfs for the root. Hopefully they know what the recommend, so my recently-reinstalled laptop won't crash and burn. Heh.

XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.

Diezel, Guru, Posts: 516
It's never funny when someone attacs your distro.

nero, n00b, Posts: 62
Gentoo 0wnz

Diezel, Guru, Posts: 516
It's never funny when someone attacs your distro.

nero, n00b, Posts: 62
Gentoo 0wnz

shoudn't that be...

Today is a good day to compile.

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I have one "word" for you: distcc