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> Ooh! show me these Linux-loving females!

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/use rinfo.xml

The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.

This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.

The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.

There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.

..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.

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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Will Larry the cow be satisfied with the state of current Linux distributions?

Will there be APT (the package management system with Super Moo Powers) repositories in this?

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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Actually, you can't pick a precompiled kernel. You can get a precompiled base system, yes, but even with a stage 3 install you still need to compile a kernel.

You CAN use genkernel, which compiles a kernel for you that can be used on most systems using hotplug to insert the correct modules, but it certainly is not precompiled.

Look here for details.

Portaris, Portage on Solaris

Just something I've toyed around with. The major stumbling block is that the developers need to add the ability for portage to recognize other oses. Mine isn't really a complete project, more of a log of stuff I've done. Others have followed and managed to get things like KDE to fully install in solaris using portage.

Multiple versions and revisions of the same package in the tree, conditional dependency resolution and feature support, fine-grained package management, sandboxed safe installation, configuration file protection, profiles, and much more.

If you want to teach an AI to not harm humans, find one that did harm a human, and punish it while the other AIs watch. Game theory will keep them in line -- provided that you are able to maintain power over them. (If they ever get the upper hand, then game theory will keep us in line.)

Homer: He said "emerge", I'm plugging Gentoo!
Marge: I never agreed to that rule!

Yes, this is off topic, but since the Slashdot editors think Will's new movie (no disrespect to Isaac Asimov) is more news than a remote vulnerability in the linux kernel I figured I post it here to help everyone who relies on slashdot for there tech news. Here is my rejected dtory. No, this is not spite I don't care who they said posted it as long as the word gets out to help people who are vulnerable.

Over at gentoo security they are reporting a bug found in the 2.6 kernel running IPTables firewall that will let an attacker DoS a vulnerable system by sending a single malformed TCP packet causing the kernel to go into a infinite loop and consuming all of the CPU resources. Adam Osuchowski has a good write up on this bug(as he found it and fixed) at www.netfilter.org

Yes, this is off topic, but since the Slashdot editors think Will's new movie (no disrespect to Isaac Asimov) is more news than a remote vulnerability in the linux kernel I figured I post it here to help everyone who relies on slashdot for there tech news. Here is my rejected dtory. No, this is not spite I don't care who they said posted it as long as the word gets out to help people who are vulnerable.

Over at gentoo security they are reporting a bug found in the 2.6 kernel running IPTables firewall that will let an attacker DoS a vulnerable system by sending a single malformed TCP packet causing the kernel to go into a infinite loop and consuming all of the CPU resources. Adam Osuchowski has a good write up on this bug(as he found it and fixed) at www.netfilter.org

Configuring the USE variable

If you do a Stage 1 installation, you can configure the USE flags during installation, otherwise, I assume that you get some sort of Gentoo default. "Locked" is poor verb choice, since as AC grandparent mentions, you can change the flags.

Did you not know that you can install binary packages using Portage? Look at GRP. Your options are limited in what they're compiled for and you don't have the control you have with source, but you still have quite a bit of choice in what binaries you want to use. See here.

As for compiling yourself and any speed improvement, that's dependant on what CFLAGS you use and how fast your computer actually is, and what processor you have. Some people won't notice a difference, some people do, and the people that do notice will notice it in varying amounts.

There's also binary packages in "regular" Gentoo for packages like the Flash plugin, NVidia/NForce drivers, Java and some games, which fall in the "non-free" category (ie: closed source). There's also ebuilds for some commerical games (that you have to purchase).

10 characters??? Seiously, pasphrases should be longer. But I wasn't writing this post to flame the length of your pasphrase. I wanted to add to this by saying that keychain will save you from having to repreatedly enter your passphrase. It's a front end to ssh-agent that allows you to enter your passphrase once and have it available system wide. Normally you have to enter your passphrase for every login session. Most distributions include keychain. For a good how-to see this page.

Portage;).

(For any who don't know, portage is Gentoo's awesome application distribution system, which makes it very easy to keep software up to date.)

Gentoo runs on PPCs, and is (so I hear) less trouble to set up than Debian. Worth looking at, anyways.

Cheers.

It's fairly hard for a "normal" User on the slim line between an fairly actual system and a productive system. Anyway, new stuff always attracts me a lot (another load of hours lost :-)...

But the problem on Linux and especially with distributions a la Fedora is interoperability. Every version demands it's own RPM archive, there isn't just this thing like "xine-0.99xx.rpm" and GO. It's just like DLL Hell on Windows with the difference that it's more complicated to have different versions coexisting (M$ did some tweaks in that area); i know, it's cleaner but under M$ "IT JUST WORKS".

What really needs to get done is a wider adoption of sort of freedesktop.org "standards" like DBUS and a defined versioning System for all those *.so libraries on the system. Apple does some fairly cool tricks in that area with so called "frameworks" which exist as isolated directories and can contain multiple versions of a framework. Combined with late binding, it's just possible to trust a certain frozen API version.

I know it was already a huge step forward that most libraries now feature those xxx-config scripts so that the "user" doesn't have to supply all those directories and stuff for easier building. But let's get serious on that: A "real" user doesn't compile his stuff. And without tackling that matter we won't get serious (and working) package dependencies. And till that doesn't work every distribution is in fact a big bloated testing team trying to figure out the dependencies and building propietary packages that only work with this specific version of the distrib...

BTW I think that's part of the reason why gentoo is so successful...

Look through the step-by-step instructions in the 12 steps here. It really is easy.

Have you tried Gentoo? If you go through stages 1-3 (or 4), it will take some time (a few days at most) to compile and optimize; it does not sound like you have that kind of free computer time. You might want to use a Gentoo LiveCD. From here:

"Portage will keep your Gentoo Linux system as "up-to-date" as you desire. And because of this, experienced Gentoo users don't pay too much attention to "new versions" of Gentoo Linux -- after all, the latest and greatest version of Gentoo Linux is always available by typing an emerge sync command. There's no need to wait several months for a "new version" of Gentoo Linux to be released because Gentoo Linux is continually updated and refined and these improvements are immediately made available to you.
"Of course, we do roll up official CD releases of Gentoo Linux so that new Gentoo Linux installs are as up-to-date as possible from the start. Here's an overview of what is included in the recent 2004.1 release of Gentoo Linux:
"Support for x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc, Alpha and MIPS processors
LiveCD-based installation for x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha
Latest stable KDE and GNOME
Various optimized Linux kernels
Very modern GNU development environment
Excellent filesystem support: ReiserFS, XFS, ext3, EVMS, LVM
Excellent hardware support: NVIDIA, Creative Labs Live! and Audigy
Modular OpenGL and compiler sub-system (supports multiple co-existing versions)
Clean, dependency-based system initialization scripts
New "hardened" Gentoo security initiative
almost 7000 packages of the latest and greatest software
Enhanced Portage capabilities
See also.

Have you tried Gentoo? If you go through stages 1-3 (or 4), it will take some time (a few days at most) to compile and optimize; it does not sound like you have that kind of free computer time. You might want to use a Gentoo LiveCD. From here:

"Portage will keep your Gentoo Linux system as "up-to-date" as you desire. And because of this, experienced Gentoo users don't pay too much attention to "new versions" of Gentoo Linux -- after all, the latest and greatest version of Gentoo Linux is always available by typing an emerge sync command. There's no need to wait several months for a "new version" of Gentoo Linux to be released because Gentoo Linux is continually updated and refined and these improvements are immediately made available to you.
"Of course, we do roll up official CD releases of Gentoo Linux so that new Gentoo Linux installs are as up-to-date as possible from the start. Here's an overview of what is included in the recent 2004.1 release of Gentoo Linux:
"Support for x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc, Alpha and MIPS processors
LiveCD-based installation for x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha
Latest stable KDE and GNOME
Various optimized Linux kernels
Very modern GNU development environment
Excellent filesystem support: ReiserFS, XFS, ext3, EVMS, LVM
Excellent hardware support: NVIDIA, Creative Labs Live! and Audigy
Modular OpenGL and compiler sub-system (supports multiple co-existing versions)
Clean, dependency-based system initialization scripts
New "hardened" Gentoo security initiative
almost 7000 packages of the latest and greatest software
Enhanced Portage capabilities
See also.

There are a ton of people running amd64 on Gentoo, and at this point, the problems are fairly minor. Check out the forums and Bugzilla.

There are a ton of people running amd64 on Gentoo, and at this point, the problems are fairly minor. Check out the forums and Bugzilla.

For no reason I can really discern now, I decided to scrap Windows XP and go with Linux. It could be the great stuff I heard about Cedega, as I'm an avid fan of Battlefield 1942. Anyway, I did resolve to install and use Linux on my main computer, my gaming rig (Athlon XP @2083mhz, 1.25G RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, nForce motherboard).

So I installed Gentoo. I'd done installs (with mixed success due to the old geForce ti200 I had had in my box at the time flaking out when trying to startx) of Gentoo in the past, and I decided I liked Portage and the support and documentation at the Gentoo forums and main website.

I will admit it. I'm a geek at heart. My first computer was a C64, followed by an early Apple model and then an Apple IIGS. Then I had a 286 that was perhaps 12 or 25 mhz. At that time I learned DOS by sitting in a chair in my room one day and reading the DOS 3.3 manual. Reviewing the commands and trying to understand what they might be used for - really ending up priming myself to know where I could look for more information. So now that I've installed Gentoo with no easy reversion plan should I grow discouraged, I've really enjoyed setting up my system and dealing with the problems I've been encountering. I've only been using it for less than a month now, and I'm still learning, but I like it. And it's not just the OS that I like, or the desktop manager (I was using XFCE4, but I settled on KDE - my rig is phat enough by far and I end up using some of the programs anyway. And the interface far surpasses XFCE, though it is an adequite light DE) - it is the fun I'm having with something new, something with it's own problems and benefits and abilities.

In many ways, linux is easier to use than Windows. Installing applications with Portage (or any package manager with the correct dependancy handling) is very easy, though not without snags. But, thanks to the great Gentoo forums, I've usually been able to find someone who's dealt with the problem I'm having before and am able to wrestle out a fix.

I think one of the reasons I chose to install linux is because I think it *is* the future for the PC desktop. Once you get around the growing pains, the bottom line is that it's free (as in beer, non-programmers don't really care about free speech), pretty stable, and relatively easy to use. It comes with everything you could ever need on a computer "built-in" to many distributions. And when it gains momentum, and gets to that place where there are distributions that non-geeks can install and maintain on any relatively new computer (I'm quite impressed by Xandros 2.0, that really did work out of the box with no issues at all on my athlon/nforce/integrated GF4 system), I think we'll start to see a slow exodus at first and then gain large market share as more applications are able to run native on Linux.

For no reason I can really discern now, I decided to scrap Windows XP and go with Linux. It could be the great stuff I heard about Cedega, as I'm an avid fan of Battlefield 1942. Anyway, I did resolve to install and use Linux on my main computer, my gaming rig (Athlon XP @2083mhz, 1.25G RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, nForce motherboard).

So I installed Gentoo. I'd done installs (with mixed success due to the old geForce ti200 I had had in my box at the time flaking out when trying to startx) of Gentoo in the past, and I decided I liked Portage and the support and documentation at the Gentoo forums and main website.

I will admit it. I'm a geek at heart. My first computer was a C64, followed by an early Apple model and then an Apple IIGS. Then I had a 286 that was perhaps 12 or 25 mhz. At that time I learned DOS by sitting in a chair in my room one day and reading the DOS 3.3 manual. Reviewing the commands and trying to understand what they might be used for - really ending up priming myself to know where I could look for more information. So now that I've installed Gentoo with no easy reversion plan should I grow discouraged, I've really enjoyed setting up my system and dealing with the problems I've been encountering. I've only been using it for less than a month now, and I'm still learning, but I like it. And it's not just the OS that I like, or the desktop manager (I was using XFCE4, but I settled on KDE - my rig is phat enough by far and I end up using some of the programs anyway. And the interface far surpasses XFCE, though it is an adequite light DE) - it is the fun I'm having with something new, something with it's own problems and benefits and abilities.

In many ways, linux is easier to use than Windows. Installing applications with Portage (or any package manager with the correct dependancy handling) is very easy, though not without snags. But, thanks to the great Gentoo forums, I've usually been able to find someone who's dealt with the problem I'm having before and am able to wrestle out a fix.

I think one of the reasons I chose to install linux is because I think it *is* the future for the PC desktop. Once you get around the growing pains, the bottom line is that it's free (as in beer, non-programmers don't really care about free speech), pretty stable, and relatively easy to use. It comes with everything you could ever need on a computer "built-in" to many distributions. And when it gains momentum, and gets to that place where there are distributions that non-geeks can install and maintain on any relatively new computer (I'm quite impressed by Xandros 2.0, that really did work out of the box with no issues at all on my athlon/nforce/integrated GF4 system), I think we'll start to see a slow exodus at first and then gain large market share as more applications are able to run native on Linux.

Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!

If you want to use Linux as a desktop OS, I suggest you check out Gentoo, the installation process is a bit difficult, but it's very well documented, and then you'll get an OS customized for your needs.

Portage is very easy to use, it handles deps automatically, and makes downloading new software a breeze. :-)

Prelinking can really help with that.

The Gentoo Live Stick

How about less than two hours

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!

$Id: ceren.html,v 7.0 2004/01/01 11:32:04 ceren_rocks Exp $

At the moment there's a bug in Linux kernel 2.4.26 that causes the remote compiling systems to encounter a kernel panic (and crash.)

It's a known bug and has been discussed on the lkml. The bug is also discussed on the gentoo bugzilla. A patch is also available, though the patch program didn't work for me so I had to apply it manually.

The patch seems to be holding up, too. If you're using distcc on systems with vanilla 2.4.26 kernels, I'd suggest patching them.

At the moment there's a bug in Linux kernel 2.4.26 that causes the remote compiling systems to encounter a kernel panic (and crash.)

It's a known bug and has been discussed on the lkml. The bug is also discussed on the gentoo bugzilla. A patch is also available, though the patch program didn't work for me so I had to apply it manually.

The patch seems to be holding up, too. If you're using distcc on systems with vanilla 2.4.26 kernels, I'd suggest patching them.

Does anyone know if there are distro's compiled with, say, the Intel compiler?

I don't know of such distro but at least according to Gentoo documentation Gentoo has some kind of support for icc. I don't know how widely and how well it works. (I've never used Gentoo.)

Just last weekend I set up distcc via cygwin on 3 PCs to help my Gentoo box compile. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to successfully compile the cross compiler under cygwin, so I used a pre-built version, available under the Gentoo forums thread linked below. It seems to work well so far, although the Windows boxes are definitely slower than equivalent Linux boxes. But as they are not my computers to begin with, I won't be complaining anytime soon ;)

Gentoo has a HOWTO entitled:
"HOWTO: Use a Windows box as a distcc server for linux."

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66930

Depends on your definition of hot, I guess... Lisa Marie Seelye (Gentoo "featured developer of the week" about a year ago). She's no Natilie Portman (with or without hot grits and/or petrification), but whatever floats yer boat...

Whoa. and distcc is being devd for gentoo by a chick

While distCC is a great tool, there are a couple things to mention. First, the article blurb states that distCC is "a distributed compiler based on GCC." It is actually a method of passing files to GCC on a remote computer in such a way that the build scripts think it was done locally.

The article also says that other than distCC, the computers need not have anything in common; this is not strictly true. Different major versions of GCC can cause problems if you are trying to compile with optimization flags that are only on the newer version. I have run into this on my gentoo box, trying to use an outdated version of GCC on a redhat box.

Another thing is that some very large packages have trouble with distributed building of any sort (either multiple threads on the same machine, or over a network like with distCC). As far as I know, at least parts of xfree86, KDE and the kernel turn off distributed compiling during the build. Some of this might just be in the gentoo ebuilds, but I tink some of it is in the actual Makefiles. If a program has trouble compiling, it's always worth a shot to turn off distCC.

A good resource for setting up distCC on a gentoo system (since compiling is so large of gentoo, this is particularly important) is gentoo.org's own distCC guide

Frankly though, typing emerge -u samba (if say, it was a samba bug) takes about 6 months to complete on some of my less capable machines.

I recommend distcc for you. It doesn't work real well with Samba, but just about everything else it speeds up compilations to near-"I don't care" ranges by using all your systems to compile stuff. I have 4 systems rigged up with it.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet but it should be pointed out that virtually everything in Unix or Mac OS X "could be exploited across the internet". A temporary file bug in gzip could be exploited across the internet. A bug in automake could be exploited across the internet.

How many of these "over the network" holes can be done by somebody without an account? If the number of those in both OS X and Linux combined, covering the range of software that comes with Windows, is more than two or three then that would be a newsworth story. What this story is really saying is that even though you can't do squat remotely in Windows there's still a huge number of remote exploits.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet but it should be pointed out that virtually everything in Unix or Mac OS X "could be exploited across the internet". A temporary file bug in gzip could be exploited across the internet. A bug in automake could be exploited across the internet.

How many of these "over the network" holes can be done by somebody without an account? If the number of those in both OS X and Linux combined, covering the range of software that comes with Windows, is more than two or three then that would be a newsworth story. What this story is really saying is that even though you can't do squat remotely in Windows there's still a huge number of remote exploits.

Where does hardened Gentoo stand in all of this? I use Gentoo but have not tried hardened Gentoo. SELinux appears to be part of hG. Is Fedora (core 2?) older than hG?

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!

$Id: ceren.html,v 7.0 2004/01/01 11:32:04 ceren_rocks Exp $

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!

$Id: ceren.html,v 7.0 2004/01/01 11:32:04 ceren_rocks Exp $

Get a printer working under CUPS? Faster to ask your neighbour to print it.
This one really depends; the software itself has some arcane configuration methods, but with a good guide (the Gentoo Printing Guide is fantastic, even for non-Gentoo users) you can have it set up in two or three minutes.

And as for names, well, I think I understand what your gripe is about, but really, there IS a limited namespace out there - and developers do need to be original and careful: we saw what happened to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

Besides, I have a suspicion that if you find an application like "xmms" under the "Music Player" or "Multimedia" menu, I would think it's pretty clear what it actually does...

Actually, I would like not only for it to support Application Bundles, but for it also to be merged with DarwinPorts and Portage (see metapkg), and officially endorsed by Apple and included in the OS by default.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can "emerge -u Safari" and use genkernel to configure xnu!

i have one windows computer and one doing my first ever stage1 install of gentoo... wish me luck

Good luck! Oh, when you get through the hand book, don't forget to hit up the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide. Its easy to miss, and I sorta messed up my first install of Gentoo by not finding it/reading through it.

And I REALLY recommend using Knoppix to install. Once you're past emerging the system, you can reboot into knoppix, open up the root shell, and do the old:
# cd /
# mkdir gentoo
# mount /dev/hda3 /gentoo
# mount /dev/hda1 /gentoo/boot
# mount -t proc none /gentoo/proc
# chroot /gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
# source /etc/profile

...And there you have your Gentoo system, pick up where you left off as if nothing happened. You can fire up Mozilla or play one of the included games while it compiles in the background. Very nice cause you dont have to get up for another computer to read the online handbook.

"My impression is that the stuff being forced onto the Linux desktop is as huge of a bloated and hacked mess as anything coming out of Redmond,"
Where do you get this impression? With Linux, you have lots of choices. If you like KDE (as I do), you may have larger files; however, I do not find my desktop to be "a bloated and hacked mess." If you want to save hard drive space, use a smaller desktop or use Knoppix. Linux is about allowing you to configure your computer the way you want it. I find that I like gentoo a great deal.
I believe you are misinformed about Linux. If you have specific examples of bloated and hacked desktop applications on Linux, I am curious to hear about them.

Here's a link to the real fix.

I myself enabled the offensive USE flag, of course, so that I get all the quotes from emerge fortune-mod-all .

I've never had Linux hard lock on me though (I've used Gentoo as my day-to-day desktop for about eight months now and various other distos before that). I've had issues, but no true hard locks.

The lockups I'm experiencing are apparently due to a known bug with the nForce2 chipset. The 2.6.6 kernel release addressed the issue, but it's still a problem. Some info about it.

It worked pretty well until I hit a wifi hotspot and it found 3 updates and started compiling for 8 hours.

actually, if you happen to come across a HP Proliant 585 (4 x 2.2Ghz Opteron), you can install Gentoo in a little more than an hour :)