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Bye bye Gentoo

I never thought I would write this, but it's true. I've retired from Gentoo. It's been a fun ride, I've made many new friends and thankfully few enemies. But our views no longer follow the same path. This is not a snap decision, I have been thin read more »
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Gentoos Emerge In Action

This a a little sample of emerge the python system Gentoo Linux uses to download compile install and manage packages Awesome indeed

Gentoo:emerge - Linux 101

emerge is a very powerful command in Gentoo Linux, so it is important that we know ho read more »
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From Gentoo to Ubuntu

By some circumstances, I found myself migrated to Ubuntu Linux from Gentoo. It's not a intentional flavour change, to be honest: but rather just happened that I royally screwed my partition table as I shuffle them around. An attempt to raking in do read more »
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HOWTO: Install a basic Gentoo server

If you want to install a new Gentoo server (no graphical system at all), this is the quickest way I’ve found after lots of installations :)
* First, boot the machine with a live CD
* create the partitions you want with fdisk/cfdisk/partiti read more »
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Return to Gentoo

So, I’m no longer using Ubuntu on any of my computers at home. It was fun while it lasted, but some things started to annoy me and I could not deal with it anymore.

So, what bothered me? Here’s a short list:
* How bugs get fixed and pushed out. read more »
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Gentoo on an Alienware Sentia

Following the Gentoo Handbook was mostly easy. The rumor is, Gentoo is the hardest Linux distribution to use. This is partly due to the fact that the installation process involves:

Partitioning disk space
Compiling a kernel
Configuring a bootlo read more »
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Good ole Gentoo. Where art thou?

I remember when I first started using Gentoo (back in the Gentoo 1.4 days), the community activity was just amazing. Each and every day or week, there was always something new and exciting going on in the Gentoo community.

I looked forward to the read more »
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HowTo Install Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite A100-847

Every Linux user has, at least, heard of Gentoo at some point. But what you hear about it is not pretty. Thinks like being the hardest distribution to install, the level of Linux knowledge level has to be quite advanced to use it and so on are prett read more »
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Why Gentoo is dead :(

I finally removed myself from all the Gentoo mailing lists. I did this with some sad thoughts. I had been using gentoo for almost 4 Years and it taught me quite a lot about Linux. Unfortunately I have been seeing the Gentoo project die over the past read more »
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What are the top 3 issues facing Gentoo?

I ran a quick, informal poll on the internal Gentoo developers' list last week, and tonight I began analyzing the results. 50 developers responded to my 9-question survey, and I'm going to post the results of 1 question at a time.

First questio read more »
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