Posted by: Abelardo Ricart
on June 24 2009
Because the only guide on setting up DoD CAC cards on Gentoo was lost after the Gentoo Wiki went out of commission (they are back now, less a bunch of articles), I decided to write a guide on how to get a good DoD CAC setup on your Gentoo system.
If you don't know what a CAC card is, Wikipedia has a good article on them here. It's basically an identification card for U.S. Department of Defense employees.
Posted by: Andrea Benini
on May 24 2009
If you just followed my previous blog about Gentoo you'll probably trying to understand what "easy upgrade" is for me and what I've to do for maintaining my system up to date.
If you take a look at the Gentoo Handbook you'll see how you can install and upgrade your system, expecially read Gentoo Upgrading Guide for making these tasks.
Posted by: Andrea Benini
on May 21 2009
One of the best things from a metadistribution like Gentoo is its approach to upgrades and management
I've started using UNIX systems with Minix and Xenix, in '92-'93 I was rolling my Slackware distro with a brand new kernel called Linux, nobody knows it but it was fine and I was happy with it, never tried other Unices and neither worked with others. After a short period I've started on working with UNIX systems heavily and I've seen a lot of them, one of the biggest complaints were the system upgrades... oh what a mess.
Posted by: Kirill
on May 19 2009
Learnt with pain:
One of the most important things if not nearly the most important thing in installation of gentoo by a person not considering himself a guru in linux is configuring the bootloader. The reason is very simple. Migrating from other OS, you most probably would like to keep your stable working operating system for a little bit while messing with gentoo. The installation is sometimes long and quite painful process along which any simplest problem might prevent you from actual using gentoo for everyday operations. Example would be an issue with a graphics driver which would not allow you to properly configure xorg and therefore you would have to use console for a while. I don't know about you, but personally I can't use Links and alike to check my email. My eyeballs turn red, nose starts bleeding and all that bad stuff. And because checking e-mail is something so ridiculously important for a University student nowadays, I would need a working X. The workaround for this particular problem is just using LiveCD which has a guied browser. But the point is understood: you would want to keep another working OS unless you install gentoos everyday like crazy and can do it without a monitor! Hence, you should always have a properly configured boot loader.
Personal Experience:
Posted by: Kirill
on May 12 2009
who I am:
I am a Pre-Medicine student of the University of Kansas completely obsessed with Linux and Open Source movement in general. I am originally from Russian Federation where I grew up as a usual Windows user and, as everybody else, due to financial situation could hardly imagine a WinXP being sold for more than ~1$ and without activation key included. Cracks, CD-Keys, Serial numbers and the ways to work around different types of CD copy-protection is the kind of information our community of average teenage computer users was usually exchanging. I didnt know the alternative; I couldn't imagine any other way of life. It all changed a year ago when a friend of mine (whom I knew for long time as a person always way ahead of me in computer knowledge) in response to some whining about how slow XP works on my free Pentium III asked: "what? You still don't use linux??? O_o" That's where it all started for me...
Posted by: Kirill
on May 11 2009
...came back home today after taking two final exams this morning (philosophy & sociology) and jumped on Facebook right away. First thing I saw was the announcement on Linux Foundation page that Linux.com finally launched! Rushed to the site, registered ... and I am here! Uploaded some pictures, joined couple of groups, invited friends - did all the usual social-network stuff and, most importantly, started this blog. I realized that I can finally talk about my crazy gentoo experiences somewhere ... where people might actually be interested!
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