Gentoo

"LinuxTag 2010 runs from June 9th to June 12th in Berlin, Germany. With more than 10,000 visitors last year, it is one of the biggest Linux and open source events in Europe. You will find the Gentoo booth at Hall 7.2a, Booth 203a. Come and visit us! You will meet many of our developers and users, talk with us, plus get some of the Gentoo merchandise you have always wanted." - yjl from Bookmarklet

"Gentoo White Nights is a night bike ride along the most beautiful city in the world - St. Petersburg - in the most magical time - the White Nights." (This was my first heard of such unique activity of a Linux distro) - yjl from Bookmarklet

3-part series, very nice -- mostly a summary of how things work in Gentoo. This sums it up: "Gentoo Linux is not for everyone, if you don't like to manually adjusting your system and instead simply use the default settings of the software provided, then the time spent installing Gentoo will probably not be worth it for you. However, if you like to have total control of your system and want to ensure that you know every aspect of your computer and want to ensure that you have the latest versions of software available without having to re-install the system every 6 months, then Gentoo Linux is probably one of the Distributions that you may want to look at." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"7 Servers (Gentoo Linux). Virtualization (Xen) creates 13 virtual servers." -- via Betelgeuse - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"KrcStat is a graphic (GUI) replacement for the Gentoo rc-status and rc-update command line utilities. It can be used to check all your services are active and generate an alert if they are not. You may easily create new runlevels and drag services from the Services pane into them. (Alternate runlevels may be specified by using the softlevel parameter on the kernel command line in Grub or Lilo.)" - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Three years later I’m still a Gentoo user and don’t plan on switching anytime soon. I’ve become used to just keeping every package up to date and not worrying about new releases. Slackware still holds a special place with me and I still keep up with its development. The Gentoo team have done a fine job with its development and I look forward to whats in store for the future." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"In this article we are going to compare some of the most common commands used to manage Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux. Ubuntu and Gentoo are two completely different distributions, but some aspects are comparable, like operations with the packet manager they have: Ubuntu has dpkg, Gentoo has Portage, but on both the systems you’ll want to install or remove some software." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Since installing gentoo on my server, even though there are numerous positives to it, I have found that restarting gentoo is always a game of Russian Roulette. Funny though with gentoo its seems like instead of your chances being one out of six for a “severe headache” it is more like five out of six. What I mean by that is that whenever I have had to restart the damn thing, I find that something has broken. This of course I can only blame on myself since it is because I an no where near as careful as I should be when I update the damn thing (curse you emerge world). I have to say though, using gentoo will get you to learn very quickly how to diagnose and fix problems with a linux install,well at least by actually fixing it and not just reinstalling from scratch." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"And in the last 6 months I have installed Ubuntu, then Gentoo , then Ubuntu, then… etc. so naturally with this playing around I got the hang of Gentoo. installing takes a day where it took me a week+. started to see the benefits of using Gentoo. I was learning around each corner something new. And now I am a pure Gentoo user, don’t have any other distro running on my machines. but still have a windows machine of the odd game. And yesterday I realised another thing. My Gentoo machine is complete its feel almost of I am going to get bored. I got a chill because what is there next after Gentoo “Linux from scratch” , luckily I am busy with B.Sc Computer Science, so there is a new field to keep me busy programming." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"And so I'm forced to ask: is Gentoo dying? It used to be easy to at least have a cutting edge system with Gentoo. That was one of it's big appeals, that software hit portage before anywhere else. But now, lots of "new" stuff is off in an overlay, and stable in the main portage tree is shockingly (at least to me) old and conservative. It seems way to much hassle to get a cutting edge desktop out of Gentoo now, especially with Ubuntu doing a decent job of it so trivially. I still have Gentoo on my server, but again, I just had to install a new overlay, just to get the "new" Ruby 1.9 line which has been out for a year, and everyone, even Debian stable is carrying (do you know how weird that is to me?). And what is the point of having a "stable" if it's so old as to be half unusable and older than even Debian stable? This is not the Gentoo I remember, and I'm even a little surprised with how easy I decided to abandon it on my desktop, but when it came down to it, it really didn't offer me much of a compellin" - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"When Bill Yu, an engineer for Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) development and test lab in Boulder, Colo., was looking for a new a backup solution, he stumbled upon R1Soft at last year's Red Hat Summit (NYSE: RHT) in Boston. - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Yu said he'd like to see faster restores — which he blames in part on a 1 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI connection — and he'd also like to see support for Gentoo Linux and XFS." - Donnie Berkholz

Cisco runs Gentoo, eh? - Donnie Berkholz

"Given that we are a Gentoo Linux shop and that SilverStripe hasn’t been packaged yet, I wrote an ebuild script to aid installation and maintenance." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

The power of Gentoo. The simplicity of ebuild writing makes it easy for a shop to make custom apps integrate into their systems. - Donnie Berkholz

"Following is the list of TOP 10 Freenode channels where users flock in to receive and offer real-time help. 1. Ubuntu: Official Ubuntu Support channel 2. Debian: Debian discussion channel 3. Gentoo: Gentoo Linux support chennel 4. Python: Python Discussion channel 5. ArchLinux: Official Arch Linux support channel 6. Haskell: The Haskell programming language channel 7. Django: Django discussion channel 8. Perl: Perl Support Channel 9. Git: Git Discussion Channel 10. Fedora: Fedora Support Channel Few other high-traffic channels include rubyonrails, kde, mysql, android, drupal, apache, etc.. To connect to Freenode you need an IRC client and one of the most popular clients is mIRC which can be downloaded from here. Note: These channels are sorted based on the traffic they receive." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"François Dupoux has announced today, after less than a month since the last release, version 1.1.6 of his SystemRescueCd Linux recovery distribution. The Gentoo-based system has updated both the standard and alternative Linux kernels to version 2.6.27.19, improving support for Reiser4 and ext4 filesystems." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Running gentoo linux on a playstation 3, demonstrating wireless,..." - Donnie Berkholz

"Gentoo Linux starts you off with even less than Arch, as you essentially build your system from scratch during the initial install. Sure, you can download a totally pre-packed version and even a live CD, but the traditional way to install Gentoo is to compile a unique configuration specific to your hardware and software needs right from the start. There are tons of choices and options during installation, but they're pretty clearly explained. Some readers noted that, although they started with other distributions of Linux, it wasn't until they started using Gentoo that they really got their hands dirty and learned how Linux really runs. Now that you've seen the options for the open-source operating system crown, it's time to log your vote:" - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Yes it has finally happened, I have succumed to the Gentoo ways. At this moment in time, I am for my first ever time compiling the Linux kernel (2.6.27), yes that is .01 behind the current Jaunty alpha but who cares, I’m doing it. I have to say that I’m looking forward to this new way of utilising Linux, consideirng my practically Ubuntu-exclusive background, I wonder if the speed will differ at all or whether all of this time emerging is well, a waste of time? Currently the kernel has been compiling for 15 or so minutes without much changes occuring however I can hear my computer’s fan working overtime… eek! I’ll get back to you when X and gdm is working properly, or at least installed and I’ll give my first opinions of Gentoo for you or just for my own records if you’re not intersted ;-) . Go experiment with other Linux distros if you haven’t already though!" - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"The SiCortex super runs a variant of Gentoo Linux and has a tweaked version of the Lustre open-source clustered file system controlled by Sun and used by many supercomputer centers. Sun bought the company behind the Lustre project in September 2007. SiCortex bought parallel-compiler maker PathScale in August 2007 and ported the compiler stack to its MIPS-based Gentoo rev. SiCortex also replaced the Linux boot sequence and added system-management tools, but Leonard says that the machine looks and feels like any normal Linux-based Beowulf cluster." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Ever wanted to build your program for other architectures than the one on your system? Maybe you wanted to build a piece of code for a 64bit system but don’t have a 64bit OS available? Or perhaps you want to compile some application for ARM to use on your mobile gadget? It’s all possible using Gentoo crossdev. Gentoo crossdev will help you install a compiler, linker, runtime libraries and development tools for other architectures than the one native to your system. It does this by emerging the necessary packages in a separate overlay." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"Version 20090309 of the Tin Hat distribution has been announced. Tin Hat is an interesting, RAM-only, Gentoo-based distribution." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"As most power users kept their old installs and did not adhere to Ubuntu, the support forums are maintained mostly by regular/home users and the solutions are either noneffective or poorly explained. The contrast of this last item is well seen in comparison with Gentoo Wiki Documentation." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

"At the command line, issue genkernel --menuconfig all It will shit it's self a few seconds, then provide you with a prompt with many many options that will no doubt cause your very person to implode in to the temporal-flux of the space-time contiuum cuasing your gravemtric sub-systems to flush in to a temporal rift. Right now, I know how you feel. You're not alone, I knew less then you (trust me) so bare with me : There should be many things selected (little (*)'s next to them) that's good. To make these selections, hit space, make sure they are not M's because that's a module and we want the kernal to have everything built in for now. OK, so, go to device drivers in that menu thing you're in. If it looks like you may have something you see, enable it (space) if it looks like there's not much chance you'll have it, enable it. Infact - for the purpose of this guide, I really want you to just not worry about how much stuff you enable (within reason) in these device drivers/network /sound and all those re" - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

Interesting post on installing Gentoo from the perspective of someone who doesn't know much about Linux and apparently isn't interested in learning (or is just frustrated?). - Donnie Berkholz

"GHCA recently updated all their computers to run the Gentoo distribution of the Linux operating system. This video interviews system administrator Michael Surran, exploring the details as to why the school switched to Gentoo and how Gentoo is used to improve productivity and functionality. Of particular interest is the use of distributed compiled computing (distcc) among the 20 Athlon computers to greatly speed the software building process." - Donnie Berkholz

"Now, you've probably guessed that I'm quite satisfied with Gentoo - once it's combined with a unification filesystem. Once you have set up and configured a Gentoo system, and know how to use portage (Gentoo's package manager), updating applications is a no-brainer most of the time. (Big kudos to all the Gentoo developers who make this possible.) If you are interested, you can also get an initial binary distribution from Gentoo and then still use the source-based package manager afterwards on top of the binary packages. See Gentoo Linux and wikipedia:Gentoo." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet